Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

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

Scope

             (1)  This section applies if an instrument under section 117E is applicable to a carriage service provider (the first provider ).

Provider must meet or exceed minimum benchmark

             (2)  The first provider must meet or exceed a minimum benchmark set by the instrument.

Contravention caused by another provider

             (3)  For the purposes of determining whether the first provider has met or exceeded a minimum benchmark set by the instrument, if:

                     (a)  the first provider has contravened a standard in force under section 117D; and

                     (b)  the contravention is wholly or partly attributable to one or more acts or omissions of another carriage service provider;

the first provider is taken not to have contravened the standard.