Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A05097:clause:1_87g
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A05097
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 87G
Character Range: 6543–7351

87G  Scale of damages for breach of performance standards

 (1) AUSTEL may, by written instrument, specify a scale of damages for contraventions of standards under section 87E.

 (2) The scale must:
 (a) specify categories of contraventions; and
 (b) specify a dollar amount as the amount of damages payable for contraventions covered by each of those categories.

 (3) A dollar amount specified in accordance with paragraph (2)(b) must not exceed $25,000.

 (4) A category may be specified by reference to contraventions that continue over a specified number of days.

 (5) Subsection (4) does not, by implication, limit the ways in which a category may be specified.

 (6) An instrument under this section is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.