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Telecommunications Act 2001

Designated services and specified services - Standard terms determinations for designated access services and specified services - Preliminary

30A: Overview of subpart

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"A guide to how the Commission makes rules for some telecommunications services in New Zealand."

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This part of the law helps the Commission make decisions about how some telecommunications services are supplied. You can think of the Commission like a referee, making sure everyone follows the rules. The Commission can decide the terms for supplying these services to all access seekers and providers, instead of making a different decision under section 27.

The Commission has a process to develop standard terms for these services, which you can find in sections 30C to 30J. They can also make and review these standard terms, as outlined in sections 30K to 30R. The law explains how these standard terms apply, which is covered in section 30S, and how they work with decisions made under section 27, as explained in section 30T.

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Part 2Designated services and specified services
Standard terms determinations for designated access services and specified services: Preliminary

30AOverview of subpart

  1. This subpart enables the Commission to make, as an alternative to a determination made under section 27, a determination of the terms on which a designated access service or specified service must be supplied with reference to all access seekers and all access providers of the service.

  2. Accordingly, this subpart—

  3. provides a process for the development of standard terms for the supply of the service (sections 30C to 30J):
    1. provides for the Commission to make, and review, a standard terms determination (sections 30K to 30R):
      1. specifies how a standard terms determination is to apply (section 30S):
        1. clarifies the interface between a determination made under section 27 and a standard terms determination (section 30T).

            1. This section is intended only as a guide to the general scheme and effect of this subpart.

            Notes
            • Section 30A: inserted, on , by section 13 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).
            • Section 30A(2)(e): repealed, on , by section 38 of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 48).