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1998-99
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Telecommunications
(Numbering Charges) Amendment Bill 1999
No.
, 1999
(Communications, Information Technology and the
Arts)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997, and for related
purposes
ISBN: 0642 426244
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Telecommunications
(Numbering Charges) Act 1997, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Numbering Charges)
Amendment Act 1999.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any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 Section 5 (definition of
transferred)
Repeal the definition, substitute:
transferred has the meaning given by section 5A.
2 At the end of Part 1
Add:
(1) A number is transferred between 2 carriage service
providers when the number is ported from one of the providers to the other
provider.
(2) Two carriage service providers may enter into a binding written
agreement that provides that a number is transferred from one of
them to the other. The carriage service providers must jointly give the ACA
written notice of the transfer. The transfer takes effect on the later of the
following:
(a) the day on which the notice is given to the ACA;
(b) another day specified in the notice.
(3) A number is transferred at the time worked out under subsection (1),
and not at the time worked out under subsection (2), if the number is ported
from one carriage service provider to another when:
(a) an agreement described in subsection (2) and relating to the number is
in force; or
(b) a notice relating to the number has been given as described in that
subsection.
3 At the end of subparagraph
17(1)(b)(iii)
Add “from the provider to another carriage service
provider”.
4 Section 18
Repeal the section, substitute:
(1) If a carriage service provider holds an allocated number at the
beginning of a day determined under subsection (2), charge is imposed on the
number.
(2) Before 16 February in each year, the ACA must determine in writing a
day in April in that year.
(3) The ACA must publish the determination in the Gazette before
the day determined.
5 Application
(1) The amendments of the Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act
1997 made by this Schedule apply for the purposes of working out charge
imposed on a number held on a particular day in 2000, or a later year.
(2) However, if this Act receives the Royal Assent after 15 February 2000,
those amendments apply for the purposes of working out charge imposed on a
number held on a particular day in the first calendar year that starts after the
day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, or a later year.
(3) To avoid doubt, subsection 5A(2) of the Telecommunications
(Numbering Charges) Act 1997 applies even if:
(a) the agreement mentioned in that subsection was made before the day on
which this Act received the Royal Assent; or
(b) the notice mentioned in that subsection was given before that
day.