Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00833:section:10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00833
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 10
Character Range: 8647–9402

10  Pre‑existing interconnection rights
  If, immediately before the commencement of section 137 of the Telecommunications Act 1991, a carrier within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1989 had, under section 49 of the Telecommunications Act 1989 or section 10A of the AUSSAT Act 1984, a right to interconnect its facilities to another carrier's network on payment of an amount agreed between them or determined by AUSTEL, the payment of that amount is a term and condition for the purposes of the right of the first‑mentioned carrier to interconnect its facilities to that other carrier's network under section 137 of the Telecommunications Act 1991 and is taken to have been agreed or determined as mentioned in paragraph 137(2)(b) of that Act.