New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 - SECT 22

22 Right of Government agencies to use their former infrastructure

(1) If any infrastructure of the telecommunications network of a Government agency becomes part of the Government telecommunications network under this Act, the agency retains the right (subject to this Act) to continue to use that infrastructure for the carriage of its communications.

(2) The Government agency is entitled to be reimbursed by the Authority, in accordance with a contract or arrangement between the Authority and the agency, for the charges made by the Authority for the use of that infrastructure by that or any other Government agency or by any other person.

(3) Until the contract or arrangement is made, the Government agency is to be reimbursed in accordance with such terms and conditions as the Minister determines with the approval of the Treasurer.

(4) If the order vesting any infrastructure so provides or the Authority so approves, the Government agency may continue to use that infrastructure for its own communications and as part of a separate telecommunications network. Such a use may include the use of a particular band-width on any line on the network.