Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00195:section:158q
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00195
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 158Q
Character Range: 276161–278215

158Q  Report of review
 (1) The RTIRC must:
 (a) prepare a report of a review under section 158P; and
 (b) give the report to the Minister.
 (2) The Minister must cause copies of the report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after receiving the report.

Recommendations
 (3) The report may set out recommendations to the Commonwealth Government.
 (4) In formulating a recommendation that the Commonwealth Government should take particular action, the RTIRC must assess the costs and benefits of that action.
 (5) Subsection (4) does not prevent the RTIRC from taking other matters into account in formulating a recommendation.

Government response to recommendations
 (6) If a report sets out one or more recommendations to the Commonwealth Government:
 (a) as soon as practicable after receiving the report, the Minister must cause to be prepared a statement setting out the Commonwealth Government's response to the recommendations; and
 (b) within 6 months after receiving the report, the Minister must cause copies of the statement to be tabled in each House of the Parliament.
 (6A) A statement prepared under paragraph (6)(a) must contain an explanation of how the Commonwealth Government's response to the recommendations will improve telecommunications services in regional, rural or remote parts of Australia.
 (7) The Commonwealth Government's response to the recommendations may have regard to the views of the following:
 (a) participants in sections of the telecommunications industry (within the meaning of Part 6 of the Telecommunications Act 1997);
 (b) the ACMA;
 (c) the ACCC;
 (d) the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman;
 (e) bodies or associations that represent the interests of consumers;
 (f) such other persons as the Minister considers relevant.

Definitions
 (8) In this section:
Australia has the same meaning as in section 158P.
telecommunications services has the same meaning as in section 158P.

Division 2—Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee (RTIRC)