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Telecommunications Act 2001

Designated services and specified services - Standard terms determinations for designated access services and specified services - Standard terms development process

30E: Commission must conduct scoping workshop

You could also call this:

"The Commission must hold a meeting to gather information when looking at a special service."

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The Commission has to run a scoping workshop when looking at a special service. You can think of a scoping workshop like a meeting where the Commission gets information to help them decide things. The Commission uses this information to figure out how long an access provider has to submit a proposal, as outlined in section 30F, and what other requirements they need to follow, as outlined in section 30F(2).

The scoping workshop must be open to all parties involved in the decision. The Commission decides how and when to run the workshop. They can choose an employee or agent to run it in a way that works for them.

The Commission can also run workshops on other topics, and this section does not affect what they can discuss in those workshops. This means the Commission has the freedom to run different types of workshops as they see fit. You can still learn more about how the Commission makes decisions, but this section is just about scoping workshops.

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

30ECommission must conduct scoping workshop

  1. The Commission must conduct 1 or more scoping workshops in relation to a designated access service or specified service.

  2. The purpose of a scoping workshop is to provide the Commission with information to assist it in specifying—

  3. a reasonable period of time within which an access provider must submit a standard terms proposal under section 30F; and
    1. any additional requirements for that proposal under section 30F(2).

      1. A scoping workshop must be—

      2. open to all parties to the standard terms determination; and
        1. conducted by an employee or agent of the Commission in a manner, and within the time, that the Commission thinks fit.

          1. To avoid doubt, this section does not prevent the Commission from conducting a workshop in relation to any other matter, nor does it affect the matters that may be considered by the Commission in any other workshop.

          Notes
          • Section 30E: inserted, on , by section 13 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).