69ABSpecified fibre areas

1. The Commission must, before 1 January 2020 and at least annually thereafter, carry out an assessment to determine the geographic areas in which a specified fibre service is available to end-users.

2. The Commission must, by public notice, declare an area to be a specified fibre area if the Commission determines in an assessment under subsection (1) that a specified fibre service is available to end-users in the area.

3. A notice under this section must specify the date on and after which the area is to be a specified fibre area, and that date must not be before 1 January 2020.

4. A notice under this section may describe an area by any means, including (without limitation)—

5. by use of a map; and
6. by a narrative description of the area.

7. The Commission must maintain a record of all specified fibre areas that is available, at all reasonable times, for inspection on the Commission’s Internet site in an electronic form that is publicly accessible.

8. In this section, specified fibre service means either of the following:

9. a fibre fixed line access service:
10. a telecommunications service provided by a regulated fibre service provider (F) over fibre media where the ultimate recipient of the service is F or a related party of F (as if the test for related parties were the same as the test in section 69U, applied with any necessary modifications).