Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of this section, an existing carrier is a person who held a general telecommunications licence, or a public mobile licence, that was in force under the Telecommunications Act 1991 immediately before 5 June 1997.
(2) The Telecommunications Act 1997 has effect as if the ACA had granted each existing carrier a carrier licence under that Act at the beginning of 1 July 1997.
(3) Subsection ( 2) does not prevent the carrier licence referred to in that subsection from being cancelled in accordance with section 72 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 .
(4) Section 63 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 has effect, in relation to a carrier licence referred to in subsection ( 2) of this section, as if that section had commenced on 5 June 1997.
(5) Throughout the period beginning on 5 June 1997 and ending at the end of 30 June 1997, subsection 63(8) of the Telecommunications Act 1997 has effect, in relation to a carrier licence referred to in subsection ( 2) of this section, as if a reference in the first - mentioned subsection to the applicant for the licence were a reference to the existing carrier concerned.
(6) To avoid doubt, section 64 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 does not apply to an instrument made before 1 July 1997 under subsection 63(3) of that Act in relation to a carrier licence referred to in subsection ( 2) of this section.
(7) Division 4 of Part 3 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 has effect, in relation to an existing carrier, as if that Division had commenced on 5 June 1997.
(8) Throughout the period beginning on 5 June 1997 and ending at the end of 30 June 1997, Division 4 of Part 3 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 has effect as if:
(a) a reference in that Division to a carrier were a reference to an existing carrier; and
(b) a reference in that Division to the ACA were a reference to AUSTEL; and
(c) paragraph 78(a) of that Act had not been enacted.