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Telecommunications Act 2001

Designated services and specified services - Determinations for designated multinetwork services - Commission may initiate process for designated multinetwork service determination on own initiative

31AA: Commission may initiate process for designated multinetwork service determination on own initiative

You could also call this:

"The Commission can start a process to make decisions about services that use multiple networks."

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The Commission can start a process to decide things about a special kind of service that uses multiple networks. You might wonder what kind of things they can decide, and it includes what jobs the system must do to deliver the service and how well it must do them. The Commission can also decide how to split the cost of delivering the service between the people who want to use it and the people who provide it.

The Commission can only start this process if they think there are good reasons to do so. They have to be satisfied that it is a good idea before they begin.

You can find more information about how this law was changed by looking at the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006, which is where this part of the law came from.

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Part 2Designated services and specified services
Determinations for designated multinetwork services: Commission may initiate process for designated multinetwork service determination on own initiative

31AACommission may initiate process for designated multinetwork service determination on own initiative

  1. The Commission may, on its own initiative, initiate the process for a determination of—

  2. the functions that must be performed by a system for delivering a designated multinetwork service and the standard to which those functions must be performed; and
    1. the formula for how the cost of delivering the service must be apportioned between the access seeker and all access providers of the service.

      1. The Commission may decide to initiate that process only if it is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so.

      Notes
      • Section 31AA: inserted, on , by section 14 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).