Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999 - SECT 12D

             (1)  Until:

                     (a)  a determination of a primary universal service provider under section 12A; or

                     (b)  a deemed determination of a primary universal service provider under section 12E;

takes effect for the first time for a universal service area in respect of a service obligation, the Minister is taken to have made a determination under section 12A that Telstra is the primary universal service provider for that area in respect of that service obligation.

             (2)  Despite subsection 12A(6), the determination that the Minister is taken to have made is not a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 . Instead, a notice must be published in the Gazette to the effect that Telstra is the primary universal service provider for the area in respect of that service obligation.