Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00742:clause:2_8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00742
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 8
Character Range: 1471193–1472946

8  Access by end‑users of other carriage service providers
 (1) If:
 (a) a carriage service provider (the first provider) who supplies a standard telephone service itself provides directory assistance services to end‑users of its standard telephone service; and
 (b) another carriage service provider (the second provider) who supplies a standard telephone service does not itself provide directory assistance services to particular end‑users of its standard telephone service; and
 (c) the second provider requests the first provider to enter into an agreement for the first provider to provide directory assistance services to those end‑users of the second provider's standard telephone service;
the first provider must comply with the request.
 (2) The directory assistance services are to be provided to the end‑users of the second provider's standard telephone service in accordance with the request and on such terms and conditions as are:
 (a) agreed between the first provider and the second provider; or
 (b) failing agreement, determined by an arbitrator appointed by the parties.
If the parties fail to agree on the appointment of an arbitrator, the ACCC is to be the arbitrator.
 (3) The regulations may make provision for and in relation to the conduct of an arbitration under this clause.
 (4) The regulations may provide that, for the purposes of a particular arbitration conducted by the ACCC under this clause, the ACCC may be constituted by a single member, or a specified number of members, of the ACCC. For each such arbitration, that member or those members are to be nominated in writing by the Chairperson of the ACCC.
 (5) Subclause (4) does not, by implication, limit subclause (3).

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