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Telecommunications Act 2001

Structural separation of Telecom - Line of business restrictions

69P: Register of non-retail users

You could also call this:

"Who Chorus is allowed to supply services to without breaking the rules"

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The Commission has to keep a list of users for the purposes of section 69O. If your name is on this list, it means Chorus is allowed to supply services to you without breaking the rules in section 69O. You or Chorus can ask the Commission to add a name to the list by making a written application.

The Commission will then tell the public about the application and decide whether to add the name to the list within 15 working days. They will add the name if they think Chorus would not break the rules in section 69O by supplying services to that person. On separation day, the list must include all of Chorus's existing customers who use certain services.

The Commission must make the list available for you to see on their website at any reasonable time. They have to keep the list up to date and make it publicly accessible in an electronic form.

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Part 2AStructural separation of Telecom
Line of business restrictions

69PRegister of non-retail users

  1. The Commission must maintain a register of users for the purposes of section 69O.

  2. If the name of the user appears on the register maintained by the Commission under this section, it is conclusive evidence of the fact that Chorus does not breach section 69O by supplying to that person.

  3. Chorus or any user of telecommunications services may make a written application to the Commission (in a form required by the Commission, if any) for a name of a user to be entered on the register.

  4. The Commission must give public notice of the application as soon as practicable after receiving it.

  5. The Commission must, within 15 working days of public notice of the application, enter the name of the user on the register if the Commission is satisfied that Chorus would not breach section 69O by supplying to that person.

  6. At separation day, the register must include all of Chorus's existing unbundled copper local loop customers and unbundled bitstream access customers as at separation day, as notified to the Commission by Chorus before separation day.

  7. The Commission must, at all reasonable times, make the register available for inspection on the Commission's Internet site in an electronic form that is publicly accessible.

Notes
  • Section 69P: substituted, on (being the date of separation day, and an Order in Council (SR 2011/302) having been made under section 36), by section 51 of the Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 27).
  • Section 69P(5): amended, on , by section 5 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 136).