Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Act 2005

 

No. 50, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act 1983, and for related purposes

 

 

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—Amendments

Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act 1983

Schedule 2—Transitional provisions

 

 

Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Act 2005

No. 50, 2005

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act 1983, and for related purposes

[Assented to 1 April 2005]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

  This Act may be cited as the Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Act 2005.

 (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provision(s)

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table

The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

1 April 2005

2.  Schedules 1 and 2

At the same time as section 6 of the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005 commences.

1 July 2005

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

 (2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.


 

1  Paragraph 6(5)(b)

Omit “ACA”, substitute “ACMA”.

2  Subsection 7(1)

Omit “ACA”, substitute “ACMA”.

3  Subsection 7(3)

Omit “ACA”, substitute “ACMA”.


 

1  Definitions

In this Schedule:

Imposition Act means the Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act 1983.

transition time means the commencement of this Schedule.

2  Continued effect of election notices

A notice that was given to the ACA before the transition time under paragraph 6(5)(b) of the Imposition Act as then in force has the same effect after the transition time as it would have had if the amendments of that paragraph made by Schedule 1 to this Act had not been made.

3  Continued effect of amount determinations

A determination made by the ACA under subsection 7(1) of the Imposition Act that was in force immediately before the transition time has effect on and after the transition time as if it had been made by the ACMA under that subsection as amended by Schedule 1 to this Act.

 

 

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 2 December 2004

Senate on 7 March 2005]

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