Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Omnibus No. 1) Act 2024 (93 of 2024)

Schedule 4   Communications Access Coordinator and Communications Security Coordinator

Part 2   Application, saving and transitional provisions

Division 1   Telecommunications Act 1997

163   Carrier licence procedures - Telecommunications Act 1997

Applications given to Communications Access Co-ordinator

(1) If:

(a) a copy of an application for a carrier licence was received by the Communications Access Co-ordinator under subsection 53A(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997 on a day (the relevant day ) before the commencement of this Schedule; and

(b) the ACMA had not granted, or refused to grant, the carrier licence before that commencement;

then, on and after that commencement, the copy of the application is taken to have been received by a Communications Access Coordinator on the relevant day.

Consultation with Communications Access Co-ordinator

(2) If a copy of an application is taken, under subitem (1) of this item, to have been received by a Communications Access Coordinator before the commencement of this Schedule then, on and after that commencement:

(a) section 56A of the Telecommunications Act 1997, as amended by this Schedule, applies in relation to the application; and

(b) anything done by, or in relation to, the Communications Access Co-ordinator under that section at a time before that commencement is taken to have been done by, or in relation to, a Communications Access Coordinator at that time.

Notices given by Communications Access Co-ordinator

(3) If a notice by the Communications Access Co-ordinator under subsection 56A(2), (3), (4) or (5) of the Telecommunications Act 1997 was:

(a) given on a day (the relevant day ) before the commencement of this Schedule; and

(b) in force immediately before that commencement;

then the notice:

(c) continues in force on and after that commencement; and

(d) is taken, on and after that commencement, to have been given by a Communications Access Coordinator on the relevant day.