Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency Act 2012
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Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency Act 2012
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(1) The Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency is established by this section.
Note 1: TUSMA does not have a legal identity separate from the Commonwealth.
Note 2: In this Act, TUSMA means the Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency—see section 4.
(2) For the purposes of the finance law (within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013): (a) TUSMA is a listed entity; and (b) the CEO is the accountable authority of TUSMA; and (c) the following persons are officials of TUSMA: (i) the CEO; (ii) the staff of TUSMA referred to in section 71; (iii) consultants engaged under section 72; (iv) persons whose services are made available to TUSMA under section 73; and (d) the purposes of TUSMA include the functions of TUSMA referred to in section 32.