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Telecommunications Act 2001

Fibre fixed line access services - Enforcement and miscellaneous provisions

214: Offences relating to information disclosure regulation

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"Breaking rules about sharing information can be a crime"

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You can commit an offence if you know that certain fibre fixed line access services have information disclosure rules and you break those rules on purpose. You can also commit an offence if you have to follow an order under section 213 but you do not do what the order says by the specified date or time. If you commit this offence, you can be fined up to $200,000 if you are an individual or up to $1,000,000 if you are a company.

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Part 6Fibre fixed line access services
Enforcement and miscellaneous provisions

214Offences relating to information disclosure regulation

  1. A person commits an offence if—

  2. the person, knowing that particular fibre fixed line access services are subject to information disclosure regulation, intentionally contravenes any information disclosure requirement relating to those services; or
    1. the person is subject to an order under section 213 and fails to comply with the order by the date, or within the period, specified.

      1. A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $200,000 in the case of an individual, or $1,000,000 in the case of a body corporate.

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      • Section 214: inserted, on , by section 24 of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 48).