Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 No. 98 of 1991 - SECT 151

151. (1) AUSTEL must deregister an access agreement if the parties to it
request AUSTEL in writing to deregister the agreement.

(2) AUSTEL may deregister an access agreement if:

   (a)  in the case of a determination made under section 154 because of an
        arbitration - a party to the arbitration gave to AUSTEL, for the
        purposes of the arbitration; or

   (b)  in any case - a party to the agreement gave to AUSTEL, in connection
        with the application to register the agreement; information that was
        false or misleading in a material particular.

(3) AUSTEL may deregister an access agreement if it is satisfied that:

   (a)  there has been a material change in circumstances since the agreement
        was registered; and

   (b)  that change is such that AUSTEL would now be entitled to refuse under
        subsection 146 (3) an application for registration of the agreement if
        it were not already registered.

(4) Deregistration of an access agreement consists of removing from the
register the copy of the whole, or each copy of a part, as the case requires,
of the agreement.