Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189:section:152ar:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 152AR (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 1870421–1873304

engage in conduct in connection with matters covered by the final migration plan.

Ordering and provisioning—paragraph (3)(b)
 (4A) To avoid doubt, ordering and provisioning are taken to be aspects of technical and operational quality referred to in paragraph (3)(b).
 (4B) The regulations may provide that, for the purposes of subsection (4A), a specified act or thing is taken to be ordering.
Note: For specification by class, see subsection 13(3) of the Legislation Act 2003.
 (4C) The regulations may provide that, for the purposes of subsection (4A), a specified act or thing is taken to be provisioning.
Note: For specification by class, see subsection 13(3) of the Legislation Act 2003.

Interconnection of facilities
 (5) If an access provider:
 (a) owns or controls one or more facilities; or
 (b) is a nominated carrier in relation to one or more facilities;
the access provider must, if requested to do so by a service provider:
 (c) permit interconnection of those facilities with the facilities of the service provider for the purpose of enabling the service provider to be supplied with active declared services in order that the service provider can provide carriage services and/or content services; and
 (d) take all reasonable steps to ensure that:
 (i) the technical and operational quality and timing of the interconnection is equivalent to that which the access provider provides to itself; and
 (ii) if a standard is in force under section 384 of the Telecommunications Act 1997—the interconnection complies with the standard; and
 (e) take all reasonable steps to ensure that the service provider receives, in relation to the interconnection, fault detection, handling and rectification of a technical and operational quality and timing that is equivalent to that which the access provider provides to itself.

Provision of billing information
 (6) If a service provider uses active declared services supplied by an access provider in accordance with subsection (3), the access provider must, if requested to do so by the service provider, give the service provider billing information in connection with matters associated with, or incidental to, the supply of those active declared services.

Timing and content of billing information
 (7) The billing information referred to in subsection (6) must:
 (a) be given at such times or intervals as are ascertained in accordance with the regulations; and
 (b) be given in a manner and form ascertained in accordance with the regulations; and
 (c) set out such particulars as are ascertained in accordance with the regulations.

Conditional‑access customer equipment
 (8) If an access provider supplies an active declared service by means of conditional‑access customer equipment, the access provider must, if requested to do so by a service provider who has made a request referred to in subsection (3), supply to