2Commencement

2 Commencement

(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.

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:355.55pt; border-collapse:collapse"><thead><tr><td colspan="3" style="width:344.85pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span style="font-weight:bold">Commencement information</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:74.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span style="font-weight:bold">Column 1</span></p></td><td style="width:180.7pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span style="font-weight:bold">Column 2</span></p></td><td style="width:68.4pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span style="font-weight:bold">Column 3</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:74.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span style="font-weight:bold">Provision(s)</span></p></td><td style="width:180.7pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span style="font-weight:bold">Commencement</span></p></td><td style="width:68.4pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span style="font-weight:bold">Date/Details</span></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="width:74.35pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><a id="CU_413994"></a><span>1.</span><span> </span><span>Sections</span><span> </span><span>1 and 2 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table</span></p></td><td style="width:180.7pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.</span></p></td><td style="width:68.4pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>16</span><span> </span><span>April 2012</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:74.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>2.</span><span> </span><span>Sections</span><span> </span><span>3 to 125</span></p></td><td style="width:180.7pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.</span></p><p class="Tabletext"><span>A Proclamation must not specify a day that occurs before the latest of:</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(a) the time when an undertaking given by Telstra under section</span><span> </span><span>577A of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span> comes into force; and</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(b) if an undertaking given by Telstra is in force under section</span><span> </span><span>577A of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span> and the undertaking requires Telstra to give the ACCC a draft migration plan and, in accordance with the undertaking, Telstra has given the ACCC a draft migration plan—the time when the ACCC approves the draft migration plan under section</span><span> </span><span>577BD, 577BDA, 577BDB or 577BDC of that Act; and</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(c) if, under section</span><span> </span><span>577GA of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span>, the excluded spectrum regime applies to Telstra, and no declaration is in force under subsection</span><span> </span><span>577J(3) of that Act—the time when an undertaking given by Telstra under section</span><span> </span><span>577C of that Act comes into force; and</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(d) if, under section</span><span> </span><span>577GA of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span>, the excluded spectrum regime applies to Telstra, and no declaration is in force under subsection</span><span> </span><span>577J(5) of that Act—the time when an undertaking given by Telstra under section</span><span> </span><span>577E of that Act comes into force.</span></p><p class="Tabletext"><span>However, if the provision(s) do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the latest of:</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(a) the time when an undertaking given by Telstra under section</span><span> </span><span>577A of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span> comes into force; and</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(b) if an undertaking given by Telstra is in force under section</span><span> </span><span>577A of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span> and the undertaking requires Telstra to give the ACCC a draft migration plan and, in accordance with the undertaking, Telstra has given the ACCC a draft migration plan—the time when the ACCC approves the draft migration plan under section</span><span> </span><span>577BD, 577BDA, 577BDB or 577BDC of that Act; and</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(c) if, under section</span><span> </span><span>577GA of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span>, the excluded spectrum regime applies to Telstra, and no declaration is in force under subsection</span><span> </span><span>577J(3) of that Act—the time when an undertaking given by Telstra under section</span><span> </span><span>577C of that Act comes into force; and</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(d) if, under section</span><span> </span><span>577GA of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span>, the excluded spectrum regime applies to Telstra, and no declaration is in force under subsection</span><span> </span><span>577J(5) of that Act—the time when an undertaking given by Telstra under section</span><span> </span><span>577E of that Act comes into force;</span></p><p class="Tabletext"><span>they commence on the day after the end of that period.</span></p><p class="Tabletext"><span>An expression used in this table item that is also used in the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span> has the same meaning in this table item as it has in that Act.</span></p><p class="Tabletext"><span>Subsections</span><span> </span><span>577BD(5), 577BDA(4) and (6), 577BDB(5) and 577BDC(4) of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span> apply to this table item in the same way as they apply to the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Telecommunications Act 1997</span><span>.</span></p></td><td style="width:68.4pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.35pt; padding-left:5.35pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span><span> </span><span>July 2012</span></p><p class="Tabletext"><span>(</span><span style="font-style:italic">see</span><span> F2012L01028)</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>