Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00900:section:38
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00900
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 38
Character Range: 34899–36258

38  Recognition of pre‑1 July 1997 consultations by the Telecommunications Access Forum
 (1) If:
 (a) within 28 days after the commencement of this section, a body or association is declared under section 152AI of the Trade Practices Act 1974 to be the Telecommunications Access Forum for the purposes of Part XIC of that Act; and
 (b) before the declaration was made, the body or association carried out a process of consultation on a draft code; and
 (c) the process may reasonably be regarded as equivalent to the process set out in paragraph 152BF(a) of that Act that would otherwise have applied in relation to that code;
the body or association is taken to have complied with that paragraph in relation to that code.
 (2) If:
 (a) within 28 days after the commencement of this section, a body or association is declared under section 152AI of the Trade Practices Act 1974 to be the Telecommunications Access Forum for the purposes of Part XIC of that Act; and
 (b) before the declaration was made, the body or association carried out a process of consultation on a draft code; and
 (c) the process may reasonably be regarded as equivalent to the process set out in paragraph 152BF(b) of that Act that would otherwise have applied in relation to that code;
the body or association is taken to have complied with that paragraph in relation to that code.