Remaking of sunsetting instrument without amendments – Australian Communications and Media Authority
On 6 March 2015, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) remade the Telecommunications (Section of the Telecommunications Industry – Cabling Service Operators) Determination without significant amendment from the sunsetting instrument: Telecommunications (Section of Telecommunications Industry) Determination 2003 (No. 1). The instrument specifies cabling service operators to be a section of the telecommunications industry for the purposes of the Telecommunications Act 1997. Cabling service operators are persons that supply, or arrange to supply, cabling services on a commercial basis and includes businesses that arrange for the installation, connection or maintenance of customer cabling. The effect of the instrument is that an industry code registered by the ACMA may apply to cabling service operators. In line with the Australian Government best practice regulation requirements for sunsetting legislative instruments, the ACMA has assessed the operation of the instrument in consultation with affected stakeholders and has certified that the instrument is operating efficiently and effectively. Therefore the Office of Best Practice Regulation notes that a Regulation Impact Statement is not required for these regulations to be remade. As the instrument was remade without substantial amendment there are no compliance cost changes.
