TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999 - SECT 117 Scale of damages for breach of performance standards

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

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

(2) The scale must:

(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 .

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