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NATIONAL TRANSMISSION NETWORK SALE ACT 1998 - SECT 15

Nominated customers

  (1)   The telecommunications access regime applies only in cases where the access seeker is a nominated customer and is seeking access for a nominated purpose.

  (2)   The ABC and SBS are nominated customers for the purposes of:

  (a)   the carriage of national broadcasting services or ancillary services; and

  (b)   access to sites or telecommunications transmission towers for purposes connected with national broadcasting services or ancillary services.

  (3)   A non - profit body is a nominated customer for the purposes of access to sites or telecommunications transmission towers, where that access is for community or educational purposes connected with an open narrowcasting television service.

  (4)   A community broadcasting licensee is a nominated customer for the purposes of:

  (a)   the carriage of broadcasting services solely or principally for the purpose of supplying the service known as Radio for the Print Handicapped; and

  (b)   access to sites or telecommunications transmission towers for purposes connected with a community broadcasting service.

  (5)   An emergency service organisation is a nominated customer for the purposes of access to sites or telecommunications transmission towers for purposes connected with radiocommunication transmissions by the organisation.

  (6)   A commercial broadcasting licensee is a nominated customer for the purposes of access to sites or telecommunications transmission towers for purposes connected with providing a commercial broadcasting service in a declared remote area.

  (7)   A non - profit body is a nominated customer for the purposes of:

  (a)   the carriage of broadcasting services for the purpose of an exempt re - transmission; and

  (b)   access to sites or telecommunications transmission towers for purposes connected with an exempt re - transmission.

  (8)   A government body is a nominated customer for the purposes of:

  (a)   the carriage of broadcasting services for the purpose of an exempt re - transmission; and

  (b)   access to sites or telecommunications transmission towers for purposes connected with an exempt re - transmission.

  (9)   The same person or body can be a nominated customer under more than one of the preceding subsections.



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