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Telecommunications Act 2001

Designated services and specified services - Determinations for designated access services and specified services - Application

20: Application

You could also call this:

"Asking the Commission to make rules for a service"

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If you are someone who wants to use a special service, or if you provide that service, you can ask the Commission to decide on some rules. You can ask the Commission to decide on rules for a certain amount of time. The rules might include how much you pay for the service, depending on what type of service it is.

If the service is a designated access service, the Commission can decide on the price you pay for it. If the service is a specified service, the Commission cannot decide on the price you pay for it. You can ask the Commission to decide on other rules for either type of service.

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Part 2Designated services and specified services
Determinations for designated access services and specified services: Application

20Application

  1. An access seeker or an access provider of a designated access service or specified service may apply to the Commission for a determination of all or some of the terms on which the service must be supplied during the period of time specified in the application.

  2. For the purposes of subsection (1), the terms on which the service must be supplied—

  3. may, in the case of a designated access service, include the price payable by the access seeker for the service; and
    1. must, in the case of a specified service, exclude the price payable by the access seeker for the service.