Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNIVERSAL SERVICE MANAGEMENT AGENCY ACT 2012 (NO. 43, 2012) - SECT 22

                   If:

                     (a)  before the commencement of this section, the Commonwealth entered into a contract with Telstra wholly or partly for a purpose relating to the achievement of the policy objective that standard telephone services are to:

                              (i)  be reasonably accessible to all people in Australia on an equitable basis, wherever they reside or carry on business; and

                             (ii)  be supplied to people in Australia on request; and

                     (b)  as at the commencement of this section, the contract is in force;

this Act, and any other law of the Commonwealth, has effect as if the contract had been entered into by TUSMA under section 13 for a purpose relating to the achievement of that policy objective.