Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

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

Scope

  (1)   This section applies if an instrument under section   117E is applicable to a carriage service provider (the first provider ).

Provider must meet or exceed minimum benchmark

  (2)   The first provider must meet or exceed a minimum benchmark set by the instrument.

Contravention caused by another provider

  (3)   For the purposes of determining whether the first provider has met or exceeded a minimum benchmark set by the instrument, if:

  (a)   the first provider has contravened a standard in force under section   117D; and

  (b)   the contravention is wholly or partly attributable to one or more acts or omissions of another carriage service provider;

the first provider is taken not to have contravened the standard.