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Telecommunications Act 2001

Telecommunications service obligations - Amounts payable by liable persons to the Crown - General matters

90: Crown use of telecommunications development levy

You could also call this:

"The government can use the telecommunications development levy money to improve phone and internet services in New Zealand."

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The government can use the money collected from the telecommunications development levy for certain things. You might wonder what these things are. The money can be used to pay for things like non-urban telecommunications infrastructure development, upgrades to the emergency service calling system, and other purposes that will help people in New Zealand get access to telecommunications services.

The Minister gets to decide what other purposes the money can be used for, but they have to talk to the people who paid the levy and other important groups first. This is so they can make sure the money is being used in a way that will really help people.

The government does not have to use the money within a certain time frame, except in some special cases mentioned in section 94L.

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Part 3Telecommunications service obligations
Amounts payable by liable persons to the Crown: General matters

90Crown use of telecommunications development levy

  1. The amounts paid by liable persons under section 89 (collectively, the telecommunications development levy) may be used for the following purposes:

  2. to pay TSO charges:
    1. to pay for non-urban telecommunications infrastructure development:
      1. to pay for upgrades to the emergency service calling system:
        1. any other purpose that the Minister considers will facilitate the supply of certain telecommunications services to groups of end-users within New Zealand to whom those telecommunications services may not otherwise be supplied on a commercial basis or at a price that is considered by the Minister to be affordable to those groups of end-users.

          1. The telecommunications development levy must not be used for a purpose under subsection (1)(d) unless the Minister has first consulted liable persons and any persons and organisations that the Minister considers appropriate having regard to the proposed use of the levy.

            Notes

            • To avoid doubt, except as provided in section 94L, nothing in this section requires the Crown to use any amount paid by liable persons under section 89 within any particular time.

            Notes
            • Section 90: substituted, on , by section 15 of the Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 27).