AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION ACT 1989 - SECT 32B Regulations may provide for inquiries into certain disputes about bulk services

AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION ACT 1989 - SECT 32B

  (1)   The regulations may provide:

  (a)   for the ACCC:

  (i)   to inquire into a dispute, between Australia Post and a person who is obtaining or who wishes to obtain a rate reduction for the delivery of bulk quantities of letters by Australia Post in return for performing functions in relation to the letters that may be performed by Australia Post, about the terms and conditions on which a rate reduction is or would be provided to the person (including the amount of the rate reduction); and

  (ii)   to make a recommendation to the Minister about those terms and conditions; and

  (b)   procedures for persons to notify the ACCC of a dispute of the kind referred to in paragraph   (a); and

  (c)   for the conduct of inquiries, and for the making of recommendations, provided for under paragraph   (a); and

  (d)   for the provision of information by Australia Post to the ACCC in connection with the exercise of powers conferred on the ACCC under paragraph   (a); and

  (da)   for the ACCC to use for the purposes described in paragraph   (a) information obtained under Part   VIIA of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 ;

  (e)   for the matters to be taken into account by the ACCC in exercising powers conferred under paragraph   (a); and

  (f)   that, despite section   49, the Minister may, if the Minister thinks fit and after consultation with the Board, direct Australia Post to act in accordance with a recommendation made by the ACCC under subparagraph   (a)(ii); and

  (g)   for the matters to be taken into account by the Minister in deciding whether to give a direction provided for under paragraph   (f); and

  (h)   for the notification of:

  (i)   directions given by the Minister as provided for under paragraph   (f); and

  (ii)   decisions of the Minister not to give such directions; and

  (i)   in relation to the operation of directions given by the Minister as provided for under paragraph   (f).

  (1A)   Regulations made under paragraph   (1)(f) must not authorise the making of directions that are inconsistent with subsection   32A(2).

  (2)   The regulations may provide as specified in subsection   (1) in spite of anything in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 .