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board of Australian ships apply, with any modifications or exceptions that are prescribed, to foreign ships:

       (a)     in a port in Australia; or

       (b)     in the territorial sea of Australia; or

         (c)     in the sea on the landward side of the territorial sea of Australia.";

    (b) by omitting from subsection (2) "made under subsection (1) shall" and substituting "under this section does".

Schedules

44.(1) Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the text of the convention set out in that Schedule the text of Annex III to that convention and substituting the Annex set out in Schedule 3 to this Act.

(2)     The Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the Schedule set out in Schedule 4 to this Act.

(3)     The Principal Act is amended by inserting after Schedule 9 the Schedules set out in Schedule 5 to this Act.

(4)     The Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the Schedule set out in Schedule 6 to this Act.

PART 10—AMENDMENTS OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991

Principal Act

45. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Telecommunications Act 19919.

Applications for general telecommunications licences and certain public mobile licences

46. Section 56 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:

"(1) An eligible corporation may apply to the Minister, in a manner and form approved by the Minister, for a general telecommunications licence.

  "(1A) An eligible corporation:

    (a)     that is the holder of a public mobile licence that the corporation proposes to replace when the licence ceases to have effect; or

    (b)     to whom it is sought to transfer such a licence under section 59;

may apply to the Minister, in a manner and form approved by the Minister, for a public mobile licence.".

47. After section 57 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Allocation system for certain public mobile licences

"57A.(1) The Minister is to determine, in writing, an allocation system for the purpose of granting public mobile licences to eligible corporations, other than eligible corporations to which subsection 56(1A) applies.

"(2) Without limiting the operation of subsection (1), an allocation system may:

    (a)     provide, whether by means of a tendering process or otherwise, for the grantee of a licence under the allocation system to pay for the grant of the licence; and

    (b)     specify criteria to which the Minister is to have regard in considering whether or not to grant a licence under the allocation system.

"(3) The Minister may vary or revoke a determination made under subsection (1).

"(4) The Minister may grant, or refuse to grant, a public mobile licence to an eligible corporation, other than an