Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 Commencement Order (No 2) 2017

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Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 Commencement Order (No 2) 2017

Patsy Reddy, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 14th day of August 2017

Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

This order is made under section 2 of the Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council.

Order

1 Title

This order is the Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 Commencement Order (No 2) 2017.

2 Commencement of section 18 of Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017

Section 18 of the Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 comes into force on 18 August 2017.

Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order brings section 18 of the Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (the amendment Act) into force on 18 August 2017.

Section 18 provides authorisations for the purposes of the Commerce Act 1986 in respect of transactional arrangements for the extension of the Rural Broadband Initiative and for the Mobile Black Spot Fund announced by the Minister for Communications on 12 March 2015.

All other provisions of the amendment Act are already in force.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 17 August 2017.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.