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RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS TAXES COLLECTION ACT 1983 - NOTES

Act No. 133 of 1983 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 1 July 2005
taking into account amendments up to Act No. 45 of 2005

The text of any of those amendments not in force
on that date is appended in the Notes section

The operation of amendments that have been incorporated may be
affected by application provisions that are set out in the Notes section

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

  

  

  


Contents

1............ Short title see Note 1] ....................................................................... 1

2............ Commencement see Note 1] .............................................................. 1

3............ Incorporation of Radiocommunications Act ...................................... 1

4............ Interpretation ...................................................................................... 1

5............ Application of Radiocommunications Act ......................................... 1

6............ By whom tax payable ......................................................................... 1

7............ Time of payment ................................................................................ 2

7A......... Unpaid tax penalty determinations .................................................... 2

8............ Exemptions from tax ........................................................................... 3

9............ Statutory corporations to be subject to tax ........................................ 3

10.......... Recovery of tax ................................................................................... 3

10A....... Collection of taxes on behalf of the Commonwealth .......................... 3

11.......... Regulations ......................................................................................... 3

Notes                                                                                                                                               5

 


 

 

Notes to the Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983

Note 1

The Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 133, 1983 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

For application, saving or transitional provisions made by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2005, see Act No. 45, 2005.

For all other information pertaining to application, saving or transitional provisions see Table A.

Table of Acts

Act

Number
and year

Date
of Assent

Date of commencement

Application, saving or transitional provisions

Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983

133, 1983

22 Dec 1983

20 Aug 1985 (see Gazette 1985, No. S322)

 

Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Amendment Act 1992

145, 1992

7 Dec 1992

1 July 1993

--

Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Amendment Act 1995

109, 1995

29 Sept 1995

29 Mar 1996

--

Telecommunications (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1997

59, 1997

3 May 1997

Schedule 1 (items 43-47): 1 July 1997 (a)

Sch. 1 (items 46, 47)

Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment Act 1997

145, 1997

9 Oct 1997

Schedule 1 (items 9-24): Royal Assent (b)

--

Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment Act 2000

34, 2000

3 May 2000

31 May 2000

Sch. 3 (item 4)

Australian Communications and Media Authority (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2005

45, 2005

1 Apr 2005

Schedule 2:  (c)
Schedule 4: 1 July 2005 (c)

Sch. 4

 


(a)     The Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983 was amended by Schedule 1 (items 43-47) only of the Telecommunications (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1997, subsection 2(2) of which provides as follows:

                 (2)   The following provisions commence on 1 July 1997:

                              (a)   Part 2;

                              (b)   Part 3 (other than Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 23);

                              (c)   Part 4;

                              (d)   Schedule 1;

                              (e)   Schedule 2;

                               (f)   Schedule 5.

(b)    The Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983 was amended by Schedule 1 (items
9-24) only of the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment Act 1997, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(c)     Subsection 2(1) (items 2, 3 and 10) of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2005 provide as follows:

                 (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

2.  Schedule 1

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

1 July 2005

3.  Schedule 2

Immediately after the commencement of the provision(s) covered by table item 2.

1 July 2005

10.  Schedule 4

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

1 July 2005

 


Table of Amendments

ad. = added or inserted     am. = amended     rep. = repealed     rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

Title......................................

rs. No. 145, 1992

S. 3......................................

am. No. 145, 1992

S. 4......................................

rs. No. 145, 1992

 

am. Nos. 59 and 145, 1997

S. 5......................................

rs. No. 145, 1992

S. 6......................................

am. No. 145, 1992; No. 109, 1995; No. 145, 1997

S. 7......................................

rs. No. 145, 1992; No. 109, 1995

 

am. No. 145, 1997; No. 34, 2000

S. 7A ..................................

ad. No. 109, 1995

 

am. Nos. 59 and 145, 1997; No. 45, 2005

Ss. 8, 9................................

am. No. 145, 1997

S. 10....................................

rs. No. 145, 1992

S. 10A.................................

ad. No. 145, 1992

 

am. No. 59, 1997; No. 45, 2005

 


Table A

Application, saving or transitional provisions

Telecommunications (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1997 (No. 59, 1997)

Schedule 1

46  Transitional--determinations

(1)        This item applies to a determination that was in force under section 7A of the Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983 immediately before the commencement of this item.

(2)        The Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983 has effect, after the commencement of this item, as if the determination had been made by the ACA under section 7A of the Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983 as amended by this Act.

(3)        This item does not prevent the variation or revocation of the determination.

47  Transitional--arrangements

(1)        This item applies to an arrangement that was in force under section 10A of the Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983 immediately before the commencement of this item.

(2)        The Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983 has effect, after the commencement of this item, as if the arrangement had been entered into by the ACA under section 10A of the Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983 as amended by this Act.

(3)        This item does not prevent the variation or termination of the arrangement.

 

Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment Act 2000 (No. 34, 2000)

Schedule 3

4  Time tax becomes payable

The amendments made by items 24, 25 and 26 of Schedule 2 apply in relation to the imposition of tax in respect of an instrument, if both:

                     (a)  the relevant anniversary of the issue of the instrument; and

                     (b)  the corresponding anniversary of the instrument coming into force;

occur after the commencement of those items.


 



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