Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If:
(a) during a period comprising the whole or a part of a month in an eligible financial year, a person is a carrier; and
(b) a declaration made under subsection 63(2) of the Telecommunications Act 1997 was in force on 30 June 2018 in relation to the carrier licence held by the person; and
(c) the declaration provides that the person must (upon request by an end - user at relevant premises) connect, or arrange for another person on the person's behalf to connect, premises located in a development area (however described) specified in the declaration to a telecommunications network owned by the person (as specified in the declaration); and
(d) the person, or another person on the person's behalf:
(i) has connected one or more premises located in the development area to the telecommunications network; and
(ii) has done so before the end of 30 June 2019; and
(e) one or more of the connected premises are potentially chargeable premises in relation to the person for that month;
each of the potentially chargeable premises mentioned in paragraph (e) are recently connected greenfield premises in relation to the person for that month.
(2) If:
(a) a person is a carrier; and
(b) during a period comprising the whole or a part of a month in an eligible financial year, the person supplies an eligible local bitstream access service using a local access line; and
(c) during a whole or a part of that period, a carriage service provider supplies a designated broadband service to one or more premises using the line; and
(d) one or more of those premises are potentially chargeable premises in relation to the person for that month;
each of the potentially chargeable premises mentioned in paragraph (d) are recently connected greenfield premises in relation to the person for that month.
(3) In this section:
"eligible local bitstream access service" means a local bitstream access service that is first supplied at a time during the period:
(a) beginning at the start of 1 January 2011; and
(b) ending at the end of 30 June 2019.
"local bitstream access service" has the meaning given by a declaration that:
(a) was made:
(i) under subsection 152AL(3) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 ; and
(ii) in compliance with repealed subsection 152AL(3C) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 ; and
(b) was in force immediately before the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Act 2020 .