Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The numbering plan may contain a declaration that a specified number is taken to have been allocated to a specified person at the termination time.
Note: For specification by class, see subsection 46(2) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .
(2) The declaration has effect accordingly. However, the declaration is to be disregarded for the purposes of Part 2 of the Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997 .
(3) If a number is taken to have been allocated because of the declaration, this section does not prevent:
(a) the subsequent transfer of the number; or
(b) the subsequent surrender of the number; or
(c) the subsequent withdrawal of the number;
in accordance with the numbering plan.
(4) In this section:
"allocation" , in relation to a number, means the allocation of the number under the authority of the numbering plan.
"number" has the same meaning as in Division 2 of Part 22 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 .
"numbering plan" has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 1997 .