Radiocommunications (Spectrum Access Charges—26 GHz Band) Direction 2020 (Cth)

Radiocommunications (Spectrum Access Charges—26 GHz Band) Direction 2020

I, Paul Fletcher, Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, give the following direction to the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Dated 19 October 2020

Paul Fletcher Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts

1 Name This instrument is the Radiocommunications (Spectrum Access Charges—26 GHz Band) Direction 2020.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument 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.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument. On the day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under: (a) subsection 14(1) of the ACMA Act; and (b) subsection 294(2) of the Radiocommunications Act.

4 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 5 of the Radiocommunications Act, including the following: (a) ACMA (b) spectrum; and (c) spectrum licence. In this instrument: 26 GHz band means the part of the spectrum including all frequencies greater than 25.1 GHz up to and including 27.5 GHz. ACMA Act means the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005. charges determination means a determination that is made under subsection 294(1) of the Radiocommunications Act and that either fixes spectrum access charges payable by licensees for issuing relevant spectrum licences, or specifies the times when those spectrum access charges are payable, or both. Radiocommunications Act means the Radiocommunications Act 1992. re-allocation declaration means the Radiocommunications (Spectrum Re-allocation—26GHz Band) Declaration 2019. relevant spectrum access charge means a spectrum access charge payable by licensees for issuing relevant spectrum licences. relevant spectrum licence means a spectrum licence the allocation of which is enabled by the re-allocation declaration. upfront payment amount means the amount payable as the relevant spectrum access charge if the person by whom the charge is payable elects to pay the full amount of the charge prior to the issue of the licence.