TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 4 Regulatory policy

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 4

    The Parliament intends that telecommunications be regulated in a manner that:

  (a)   promotes the greatest practicable use of industry self - regulation; and

  (b)   does not impose undue financial and administrative burdens on participants in the Australian telecommunications industry;

but does not compromise the effectiveness of regulation in achieving the objects mentioned in section   3.