Application by Chime Communications Pty Ltd (No 2) [2009] ACompT 2

AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION TRIBUNAL

Application by Chime Communications Pty Ltd (No 2) [2009] ACompT 2

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – Judicial review – distinction between questions of fact and questions of law – whether ordinary or non-legal technical meaning of word is question of fact – limitation on the power of supervising court – whether a supervising court can direct an administrative body as to what meaning it should apply to a non-legal technical word EVIDENCE – Tribunal limited to review on information, documents and evidence before the ACCC – whether the Tribunal may have regard to its own expertise

TRADE PRACTICES – Telecommunications access regime – application for review – declared services – the local call service and the wholesale line rental service – application for exemption from standard access obligations – comparing the "future with" and "future without" the exemption orders – whether exemption orders will promote the "long-term interests of end-users" – meaning of "competition", "market power", "barriers to entry" and "economic efficiency" – conditions and limitations imposed on exemption orders

Telecommunications Competition Act 2002 (Cth), Sch 2 Pt 11 Item 66 Trade Practices Act 1965 (Cth), s 10 Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), Pt XIC; ss 7, 152AB, 152AR, 152AT, 152ATA, 152AW(4) Trade Practices Amendment Act 1977 (Cth), s 21 Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 (Cth), s 8(1)(a)

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