Bill
Telecommunications Amendment (Enhancing Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2025
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21. Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-02-12
- second reading — 2025-02-12
- second reading — 2025-03-26
- second reading — 2025-03-27
- second reading — 2025-03-27
- third reading — 2025-03-27
- other — 2025-07-21
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the Bills Digest; not the record, as at 2025-02-12.
The bill would create a registration system for phone and internet providers and increase penalties for breaking consumer rules.
Providers would have to follow industry codes, and the minister could raise the maximum fines the communications regulator can issue.
The bill would amend the Telecommunications Act 1997, but the digest does not specify when the changes would start.
- Create a registration system for carriage service providers.
- Require providers to comply with industry codes.
- Increase pecuniary penalties for breaches.
- Expand the minister's authority to increase infringement notice penalties the ACMA can issue.
Phone and internet providers (carriage service providers) and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
Sources
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digest
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