Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2020A00048:section:20:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2020A00048
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 20 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 24365–26301

financial year; or
 (b) the second eligible financial year; or
 (c) the third eligible financial year; or
 (d) the fourth eligible financial year; or
 (e) the fifth eligible financial year;
is less than 55,000, the total number of chargeable premises associated with a local access line of the person for that month is to be reduced by that total number of recently connected greenfield premises.

Exception—subordinate members of associated groups
 (5) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply in relation to a person for a month if the person is a subordinate member of an associated group during the whole or a part of the month.

Associated group
 (6) For the purposes of this section, if:
 (a) a person is in a position to exercise control of:
 (i) a local access line; or
 (ii) a telecommunications network; and
 (b) the person has one or more associates;
then:
 (c) the person is taken to belong to an associated group; and
 (d) the associated group consists of the person and those associates; and
 (e) each of those associates is a subordinate member of the associated group.
 (7) For the purposes of subsection (6), the question of whether a person is in a position to exercise control of:
 (a) a local access line; or
 (b) a telecommunications network;
is to be determined in the same manner in which that question is determined for the purposes of Part 8 of the Telecommunications Act 1997.
 (8) For the purposes of subsection (6), the question of whether a person has one or more associates is to be determined in the same manner in which that question is determined for the purposes of Part 8 of the Telecommunications Act 1997.
 (9) For the purposes of subsection (7), local access line has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.
[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 28 November 2019
Senate on 13 February 2020]
(224/19)