Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189:section:151aa
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 151AA
Character Range: 1727836–1729626

151AA  Simplified outline
  The following is a simplified outline of this Part:

         • This Part sets up a special regime for regulating anti‑competitive conduct in the telecommunications industry. The regime applies in addition to Part IV.
         • The Part sets out the circumstances in which carriers and carriage service providers are said to engage in anti‑competitive conduct.
         • A carrier or carriage service provider must not engage in anti‑competitive conduct. This rule is called the competition rule.
         • The Commission may issue a notice stating that a specified carrier or carriage service provider has engaged, or is engaging, in anti‑competitive conduct. The notice is called a Part A competition notice.
         • Proceedings for the enforcement of the competition rule (other than proceedings for injunctive relief) must not be instituted unless the alleged conduct is of a kind dealt with in a Part A competition notice that was in force at the time when the alleged conduct occurred.
         • The Commission may issue a notice stating that a specified carrier or carriage service provider has contravened, or is contravening, the competition rule. The notice is called a Part B competition notice.
         • A Part B competition notice is prima facie evidence of the matters in the notice.
         • The Commission may make an order exempting specified conduct from the scope of the definition of anti‑competitive conduct. The order is called an exemption order.
         • The Commission may make record‑keeping rules that apply to carriers and carriage service providers.
         • Carriers and carriage service providers may be directed by the Commission to make certain reports available. The direction is called a disclosure direction.