Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1997 - SECT 38

  (1)   If:

  (a)   within 28 days after the commencement of this section, a body or association is declared under section   152AI of the Trade Practices Act 1974 to be the Telecommunications Access Forum for the purposes of Part   XIC of that Act; and

  (b)   before the declaration was made, the body or association carried out a process of consultation on a draft code; and

  (c)   the process may reasonably be regarded as equivalent to the process set out in paragraph   152BF(a) of that Act that would otherwise have applied in relation to that code;

the body or association is taken to have complied with that paragraph in relation to that code.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   within 28 days after the commencement of this section, a body or association is declared under section   152AI of the Trade Practices Act 1974 to be the Telecommunications Access Forum for the purposes of Part   XIC of that Act; and

  (b)   before the declaration was made, the body or association carried out a process of consultation on a draft code; and

  (c)   the process may reasonably be regarded as equivalent to the process set out in paragraph   152BF(b) of that Act that would otherwise have applied in relation to that code;

the body or association is taken to have complied with that paragraph in relation to that code.