Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 No. 98 of 1991 - SECT 294

294. (1) AUSTEL must comply with this section within 60 days after receiving
from a carrier a notice under section 293.

(2) For each service area specified in the notice, AUSTEL must decide:

   (a)  to declare the area as a net cost area for the financial year; or

   (b)  to declare as a net cost area for the financial year a service area
        for which the carrier is the universal service carrier and that
        includes all or part of that service area; or

   (c)  not to declare as mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

(3) AUSTEL must by writing declare as net cost areas for the financial year
the service areas (if any) that it has decided under subsection (2) so to
declare.

(4) In making a decision under subsection (2), AUSTEL must:

   (a)  have regard to the reasons that the request sets out under paragraph
        293 (b); and

   (b)  comply with directions in force under section 295.