Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00742:section:291:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00742
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 291 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 443513–446064

291  Business needs of other carriers or service providers
 (1) Section 276 does not prohibit a disclosure or use by a person of information or a document if:
 (a) the disclosure or use is made by or on behalf of:
 (i) a carrier (the first carrier); or
 (ii) a carriage service provider (the first provider); and
 (b) the disclosure or use is made for a purpose of, or is connected with, any other carrier or service provider carrying on its business as such a carrier or provider; and
 (c) the information or document relates to a person (the third person) who is a customer or former customer of:
 (i) the first carrier or the first provider; or
 (ii) the other carrier or the other provider; and
 (d) the disclosure or use is made for a purpose of, or is connected with:
 (i) the supply, or proposed supply, by the other carrier or other provider to the third person of a carriage service or a content service; or
 (ii) the supply, or proposed supply, by the other carrier or other provider to the third person of goods or services for use in connection with the supply of a carriage service or a content service; or
 (iii) the installation, maintenance, operation or provision of access to a telecommunications network or a facility, where the network or facility is used, or for use, by the other carrier or the other provider to supply a carriage service or a content service to the third person; and
 (e) if the information or document relates to the location of:
 (i) a mobile telephone handset; or
 (ii) any other mobile communications device;
  the third person has consented to the disclosure, or use, as the case requires, in the circumstances concerned.
 (2) Section 276 does not prohibit a disclosure or use by a person of information or a document if:
 (a) the disclosure or use is made by or on behalf of a carriage service provider; and
 (b) the disclosure or use is made for a purpose of, or is connected with, an arrangement, or proposed arrangement, made by a carriage service intermediary for the supply of a carriage service by the provider to a third person; and
 (c) the information or document relates to the third person; and
 (d) the disclosure or use is made for a purpose of, or is connected with:
 (i) the supply, or proposed supply, by the provider to the third person of that service; or
 (ii) the supply, or proposed supply, by the provider to the third person of goods or services for use in connection with the supply of the first‑mentioned service; or
 (iii) the installation, maintenance, operation or provision of