Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 No. 98 of 1991 - SECT 148

148. (1) This section applies where:

   (a)  a person has made a request under section 147; and

   (b)  AUSTEL has decided to register the agreement or has registered it.

(2) If AUSTEL thinks it desirable to do so because matters in the agreement
are confidential, AUSTEL may direct in writing that a copy of the whole, or of
a specified part, of the agreement be included in the confidential part of the
register.

(3) Otherwise, AUSTEL must refuse the request.

(4) For the purposes of this Division (other than subsection (3) and this
subsection), AUSTEL is also taken to refuse the request if it makes under
subsection (2) a direction that would result in a copy of a part of the
agreement being included in the public part of the register, not in the
confidential part as provided for in the request.

(5) AUSTEL must give to each party to the agreement a written notice that:

   (a)  sets out its decision on the request; and

   (b)  if it refuses the request - sets out the reasons for the decision.