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TELECOMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (DEREGULATION) BILL 2014

                                       2013-2014

        THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

                          HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES



          TELECOMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT
                   (DEREGULATION) BILL 2014

            SUPPLEMENTARY EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM


                Amendment to be moved on behalf of the Government



The amendment amends the Bill to remove Schedule 5.

Schedule 5 to the Bill currently contains modest amendments to the
Telecommunications Act 1997 (Telecommunications Act) and the Australian
Communications and Media Authority Act 2005 related to the repeal of some
record-keeping and reporting requirements in Part 13 of the Telecommunications Act.
These record-keeping and reporting requirements apply in relation to authorised
disclosures of certain information by carriers, carriage service providers,
number-database operators and their respective associates.

Following further consultation, the Government has decided not to proceed with the
proposed changes, in recognition of concerns raised by some stakeholders that the
measures may go beyond red tape reduction or lead to a perception that necessary
privacy protections are being reduced.

Amendment (1) omits Schedule 5 to the Bill in its entirety.




             (Circulated by authority of the Minister for Communications,
                           the Hon. Malcolm Turnbull MP)