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Telecommunications Act 2001

Services provided using networks developed with Crown funding: Undertakings regime and Commerce Act 1986 authorisations - Undertakings relating to networks developed with Crown funding as part of UFB initiative - Requirements for undertakings

156AE: Minister may determine further requirements for undertakings

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"The Minister can make extra rules for some services to follow."

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The Minister can decide on extra rules that an undertaking must follow. You need to know that these extra rules can say which services they apply to and how they apply, as stated in section 156AD. The Minister's extra rules can also include other things that must be in the undertaking and the minimum requirements for it. The Minister's extra rules do not apply to an undertaking that has already been approved. If the Minister makes a new rule under this section, it is called secondary legislation, which has its own publication requirements, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. This means the Minister must follow certain steps to make the new rule official.

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Part 4AAServices provided using networks developed with Crown funding: Undertakings regime and Commerce Act 1986 authorisations
Undertakings relating to networks developed with Crown funding as part of UFB initiative: Requirements for undertakings

156AEMinister may determine further requirements for undertakings

  1. The Minister may determine further requirements with which an undertaking must comply.

  2. The further requirements may—

  3. specify the relevant services, or types of relevant services, to which the requirements in section 156AD apply, and how they are to apply; and
    1. include further matters that must be addressed in the undertaking, and minimum requirements for the undertaking.

      1. Any further requirements determined by the Minister under this section do not apply to an undertaking that has already been approved by the Minister.

      2. A determination under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

      Notes
      • Section 156AE: inserted, on , by section 81 of the Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 27).
      • Section 156AE(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).