Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999 - SECT 45

General rule

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, eligible revenue of a person for an eligible revenue period (other than the first eligible revenue period) is the amount ascertained in accordance with a written determination made by the ACMA for the purposes of this subsection.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) has effect subject to subsection   (3).

  (3)   The eligible revenue of a participating person for an eligible revenue period (other than the first eligible revenue period):

  (a)   is taken to be zero if the person's eligible revenue is less than the amount (the threshold amount ) determined in writing by the Minister for the purposes of this subsection; or

  (b)   in any other case--must be reduced by the threshold amount.

  (4)   To avoid doubt, a determination under subsection   (1) may, in providing how to work out the eligible revenue of a person, refer to revenue of other persons.

  (5)   A determination under subsection   (1) must not provide that:

  (a)   an amount payable under a contract entered into under section   14; or

  (b)   a grant under section   14;

is included in a person's eligible revenue.

  (6)   A determination under subsection   (1) or (3) is a legislative instrument.

First eligible revenue period

  (7)   For the purposes of this Act, eligible revenue of a person for the first eligible revenue period is the person's eligible revenue (within the meaning of the repealed Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency Act 2012 ) for the eligible revenue period (within the meaning of that Act) that began on 1   July 2013.

Note:   The first eligible revenue period is the 2013 - 14 financial year (see section   5).