Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999 - SECT 117

             (1)  The ACMA may, by written instrument, specify a scale of damages for contraventions of standards under section 115.

             (2)  The scale must:

                     (a)  specify categories of contraventions; and

                     (b)  specify a dollar amount as the amount of damages payable for contraventions covered by each of those categories.

             (3)  A dollar amount specified in accordance with paragraph (2)(b) must not exceed $25,000.

             (4)  A category may be specified by reference to contraventions that continue over a specified number of days.

             (5)  Subsection (4) does not, by implication, limit the ways in which a category may be specified.

             (6)  An instrument under this section is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .