Telecommunications (ACCC Inquiry into Access to Regional Towers and Associated Infrastructure) Direction 2022 (Cth)

Telecommunications (ACCC Inquiry into Access to Regional Towers and Associated Infrastructure) Direction 2022

I, Paul Fletcher, Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, make the following direction.

Dated 25 March 2022

Paul Fletcher Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Direction

1 Name This instrument is the Telecommunications (ACCC Inquiry into Access to Regional Towers and Associated Infrastructure) Direction 2022.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument. The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under subsection 496(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

4 Definitions (1) In this instrument: ACCC means the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997. towers includes NBN towers, radio and television broadcasting towers and other suitable towers or similar structures that could be used to improve mobile coverage. (2) For the purposes of this instrument, reference to 'likely users' in subsections 5(2) and (3) includes telecommunications carriers, telecommunications service providers, utilities, emergency service organisations, and other operators of radiocommunications equipment.