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Telecommunications Act 2001

Fibre fixed line access services - Regulating fibre fixed line access services

172: When Commission must make initial section 170 determinations

You could also call this:

"When the Commission must decide rules for fibre service providers before they start."

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The Commission has to make some decisions after the input methodologies are determined under section 178 but before the implementation date. You will want to know that these decisions are about how price-quality regulation and information disclosure regulation apply to fibre service providers. The Commission makes these decisions under section 170 and they cover things like how much fibre service providers can charge and what information they have to share.

The Commission's decisions about price-quality regulation apply to the first regulatory period. You need to understand that the decisions about information disclosure regulation apply from the start of the first regulatory period.

The Commission's decision about information disclosure regulation can last for more than one regulatory period and stays in force until it is revoked, which means it is cancelled or replaced, and this decision is made under section 170.

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Part 6Fibre fixed line access services
Regulating fibre fixed line access services

172When Commission must make initial section 170 determinations

  1. The Commission must, after the date on which the relevant input methodologies are determined under section 178 but before the implementation date, make determinations under section 170 specifying—

  2. how price-quality regulation applies to regulated fibre service providers during the first regulatory period; and
    1. how information disclosure regulation applies to regulated fibre service providers from the start of the first regulatory period.

      1. A section 170 determination relating to information disclosure regulation may last for more than 1 regulatory period and remains in force until it is revoked.

      Notes
      • Section 172: inserted, on , by section 24 of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 48).