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Telecommunications Act 2001

Networks - Access to property, involving rights of multiple parties, to deploy fibre optic media and other technology - Preliminary

155A: Purpose

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"Making it easier for people to get faster internet by sorting out access to properties"

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The purpose of this part of the law is to help more people and businesses get the benefits of fibre-to-the-premises technology faster. You might be wondering how it does this. It does this by addressing problems that happen when more than one person needs to agree to let a service provider access a property to install fibre optic media, which can delay the installation process.

This part of the law recognises that getting consent from multiple people can be difficult and slow. It aims to fix this by providing a system of rights that lets service providers access properties to install fibre optic media. The law also sets different rules for different installation methods to make sure they are suitable and do not harm the property.

The law also provides a way to resolve disputes that may arise about rights and obligations related to fibre-to-the-premises technology, which can be found in the Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017.

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Access to property, involving rights of multiple parties, to deploy fibre optic media and other technology: Preliminary

155APurpose

  1. The purpose of this subpart is to enable more people and businesses to obtain the benefits of fibre-to-the-premises and other technology, within a shorter time frame, by—

  2. recognising that, when more than 1 person’s consent is required for an FTTP service provider or a network operator to access a property because each of those persons has some form of legal right in respect of that property, and there are difficulties in obtaining those consents, the process of installing infrastructure (such as fibre optic media) is delayed and opportunities to realise the benefits of that technology are missed; and
    1. providing for a tiered system of statutory rights of access—
      1. that FTTP service providers and network operators may use to access property and carry out installations in those situations; and
        1. that imposes different requirements for different methods of installation in order to ensure that the requirements are appropriate to the methods and their impact on the property; and
        2. providing for a scheme for efficiently and effectively resolving disputes that may arise about rights and obligations under this subpart.

          Notes
          • Section 155A: replaced, on , by section 13 of the Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 16).