Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 No. 47 of 1997 - SECT 59

If the ACA neither grants, nor refuses to grant, a carrier licence before the
end of whichever of the following periods is applicable:

   (a)  if the ACA did not give a request under section 55 in relation to the
        licence application-the period of 28 days after the day on which the
        ACA received the application;

   (b)  if:

        (i)    the ACA gave a request under section 55 in relation to the
               licence application; and

        (ii)   the request was complied with; the period of 14 days after the
               day on which the request was complied with;

   (c)  if:

        (i)    the ACA gave a request under section 55 in relation to the
               licence application; and

        (ii)   the request was not complied with; the period of 28 days after
               the end of the period specified in the request; the ACA is
               taken, at the end of that period, to have refused to grant the
               licence.