Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY ACT 2005 - SECT 8

  (1)   The ACMA's telecommunications functions are as follows:

  (a)   to regulate telecommunications in accordance with the Telecommunications Act 1997 and the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999 ;

  (b)   to advise and assist the telecommunications industry;

  (c)   to report to and advise the Minister in relation to the telecommunications industry;

  (d)   to report to and advise the Minister in relation to matters affecting consumers, or proposed consumers, of carriage services;

  (e)   to manage Australia's input into the setting of international standards for telecommunications (except so far as Standards Australia is responsible for managing that input);

  (f)   to monitor, and report to the Minister on, all significant matters relating to the licensing of carriers under the Telecommunications Act 1997 ;

  (g)   to make available to the public information about matters relating to the telecommunications industry;

  (h)   to conduct public educational programs about matters relating to the telecommunications industry;

  (i)   to give advice to the public about matters relating to the telecommunications industry;

  (j)   such other functions as are conferred on the ACMA by or under:

  (i)   the Spam Act 2003 ; or

  (ia)   the Do Not Call Register Act 2006 ; or

  (ii)   the Telecommunications Act 1997 ; or

  (iii)   the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997 ; or

  (iv)   the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999 ; or

  (iva)   Chapter   4 or 5 of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 ; or

  (v)   the Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997 ; or

  (vi)   Part   XIC of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 ;

  (k)   to monitor, and to report to the Minister on, the operation of each Act specified in paragraph   (j), to the extent it is so specified;

  (l)   to do anything incidental to or conducive to the performance of any of the above functions.

  (2)   An expression used in this section that is also used in the Telecommunications Act 1997 has the same meaning in this section as it has in that Act.