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Telecommunications Act 2001

Fibre fixed line access services - Orders and regulations

227: Anchor services

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The Governor-General can make rules about fibre fixed line access services. You might hear these services called anchor services. The Minister will recommend these rules. The rules can say what the service is, and any conditions that come with it. They can also say how long the service must be provided and the maximum price that can be charged. The Minister must get advice from the Commission before recommending these rules, unless the rules are minor or just fixing errors, you can find more information about this in section 208. You can also find more information about the first set of rules in clause 14 of Schedule 1AA. These rules are a type of law, for more information about this type of law, you can look at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 6Fibre fixed line access services
Orders and regulations

227Anchor services

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations declaring a fibre fixed line access service to be an anchor service.

  2. The regulations may, in relation to the service, prescribe all or any of the following:

  3. a description of the service; and
    1. any conditions; and
      1. the period during which a regulated fibre service provider who is subject to price-quality regulation must provide the service; and
        1. the maximum price that a regulated fibre service provider who is subject to price-quality regulation may charge for providing the service.

          1. For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), the regulations may, without limitation other than subsection (4), describe a service with reference to any 1 or more of the following:

          2. the geographic area in which the service must be supplied:
            1. the service’s end-users:
              1. the service providers who seek access to the service:
                1. the technical specifications of the service:
                  1. any other circumstances in which the service must be supplied.

                    1. The Minister must not recommend that regulations be made under this section unless the Commission has, after a review under section 208, recommended that the regulations be made.

                    2. Subsection (4) applies unless the Minister is recommending regulations to which either or both of the following apply:

                    3. the regulations have no more than a minor effect:
                      1. the regulations correct errors or make similar technical amendments.

                        1. See clause 14 of Schedule 1AA for requirements relating to the first regulations made under this section.

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

                        Notes
                        • Section 227: inserted, on , by section 24 of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 48).
                        • Section 227(7): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).