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may be suitable for its purposes:
 enter on any land; and
 do anything on the entered land that is necessary or desirable for that purpose.
This Chapter sets out conditions to be complied with by a carrier in exercising powers under Division 2 of Part 3.
The Chapter has 3 Parts.
The Parts deal with the following matters:
 Part 1 — introduction
 Part 4 — Director of National Parks and Environment Secretary
 Part 5 — general notification arrangements and objections to land entry activities.

Part 1 Introduction

2.1 Purpose of Chapter 2
 (1) Under the Act, if a carrier engages, or proposes to engage, in a land entry activity, the carrier must comply with:
 (a) the conditions specified in Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Act; and
 (b) the conditions specified in the regulations; and
 (c) the conditions set out in this Code.
 (2) Division 2 of Part 5 sets out some of the carrier conditions in the Act, in simplified form, to assist the reader of the Code.
 (3) Part 4, and the other Divisions of Part 5, set out:
 (a) the conditions on carriers related to giving notices to the Director of National Parks, the Environment Secretary, and owners and occupiers of land; and
 (b) the process for owners and occupiers of land to object to a land entry activity; and
 (c) the process by which objections may be resolved or referred to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.

2.2 Land entry activity
 (1) A land entry activity of a carrier is any of the following activities of the carrier:
 (a) entering on, or inspecting, land for the purposes of determining whether any land is suitable for its purposes;
 (b) doing anything on the land that is necessary or desirable for that purpose, including, for example, making surveys, taking levels, sinking bores, taking samples, digging pits and examining the soil.
 (2) A land entry activity of a carrier is also any of the following activities of the carrier:
 (a) entering on land for the purposes of surveying or obtaining information in relation to any land that, in the carrier's opinion, is or may be suitable for its purposes;
 (b) doing anything on the entered land that is necessary or desirable for that purpose, including, for example, making surveys and taking levels.
Note  See Act, Schedule 3, clause 5.

Note on definitions
A number of words and expressions used in this Chapter are to be found in the dictionary in the Schedule, including:
     ACMA (the Australian Communications and Media Authority)
     carrier
     Director of National Parks
     environment
     Environment Secretary
     industry standard
     installation
     listed international agreement
     Telecommunications Industry