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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999 - SECT 117

Scale of damages for breach of performance standards

  (1)   The ACMA may, by legislative instrument, specify a scale of damages for contraventions of standards under section   115.

  (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.



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