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• Telecommunications Interception and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  to provide the proposed Western Australian Corruption and Crime Commission (WACCC) and the proposed Parliamentary Inspector with access to relevant intercepted information; and to permit telecommunications interception warrants to be sought for slavery, sexual servitude, deceptive recruiting and aggravated people smuggling offences;

  Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988

  to provide the WACCC with access to financial transaction reports information; and

  Crimes Act 1914

  to include the WACCC in the assumed identities scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Interception Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to introduce the Queensland Public Interest Monitor (PIM) into the telecommunications interception regime to enable Queensland to legislate for the PIM to be given specific oversight functions for the Queensland Police Service and the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission. Also makes minor and technical amendments to the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  and

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Interception Legislation Amendment Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Sep 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Interception Legislation Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

  in relation to: application of the Act to telecommunications services such as e-mail, SMS messaging and voicemail; interception in relation to terrorism, serious arson and child pornography offences; use of lawfully intercepted information in connection with dismissal of an officer; the Anti-Corruption Commission of Western Australia, and the Western Australian Royal Commission into Police Corruption; operation of certain warrants authorising entry onto premises; merger of the Queensland Crime Commission and Criminal Justice Commission into the Crime and Misconduct Commission; and technical corrections; and

  Customs Act 1901

  to enable Federal Magistrates to be nominated to be judges for the purposes of issuing listening device warrants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Interception Legislation Amendment Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jun 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Responds to the Full Federal Court decision in

  Hong Kong Bank of Australia Ltd v Australian Securities Commission

  (1992) by amending the

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to ensure officeholders can validly authorise others to act on their behalf in performing legislative functions. Also makes minor technical amendments to the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Laws Amendment (Universal Service Cap) Bill 1999

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Mar 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts Portfolio 

  Bill

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Access Regime and NBN Companies) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to clarify that the facilities access regime processes in the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  have precedence over those in this Act;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  National Transmission Network Sale Act 1998

  to provide that certain access providers are to give access to in-building cabling that they own or control when the cabling is necessary for the supply of an active declared service;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  in relation to: pilots and trials of new services or technology; access determinations; notices to vary special access undertakings; fixed principles in special access undertakings; authorised conduct for competition law purposes; clarifying ‘declared services’; and consequential amendments; and

  National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011

  to provide that an NBN corporation may dispose of surplus non-communications goods; and enable NBN Co’s line of business restrictions to be changed through regulation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Communications Fund) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  to: allow money in the Communications Fund to be used for the deployment of a National Broadband Network; and make consequential and transitional amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Issues) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Sep 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills relating to the sale of the government’s equity in Telstra Corporation Limited, the bill amends the:

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to provide for the operational and organisational separation of Telstra;

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: repeal the requirement for carriers to have an industry development plan (IDP); clarify the enforcement powers of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in relation to industry codes; amend the requirements for consultation on variations to the carriage service provider numbering plan; facilitate any-to-any connectivity; enable ACMA to accept enforceable undertakings; and provide that remedial directions issued by ACMA are not legislative instruments; and

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  in relation to: the operation of the telecommunications-specific competition regime; and interim determinations about access. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Sep 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  ,

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to prevent Telstra from acquiring specified bands of spectrum which could be used for advanced wireless broadband services unless it structurally separates and divests its hybrid fibre coaxial cable network and its interests in Foxtel;

  National Transmission Network Sale Act 1998

  ,

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to require the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to: set up-front prices and non-price terms for declared services; make binding rules of conduct for the supply of declared services; remove the option to apply for exemptions from access obligations or undertakings; and remove merits review of regulatory decisions made by the ACCC;

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to: remove the requirement for the ACCC to undertake consultation before issuing a Part A competition notice; and clarify that content services supplied by carriers and carriage service providers are subject to the competition notice regime;

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  to: require the universal service provider to supply standard telephone services and payphones as determined by the minister; and provide for the minister to establish minimum Customer Service Guarantee performance benchmarks; and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: require service providers to offer a priority assistance service; and establish an infringement notice regime to deal with breaches of civil penalty provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum