52Statutory declarations and affiliations

52  Statutory declarations and affiliations

 (1) If the ACMA receives an application from an applicant (an additional applicant) in accordance with subsection 50(1), the ACMA must, after the new application deadline:

 (a) give each applicant (including each additional applicant) details about the identity of all other applicants, and the persons identified in applications as the associates of the other applicants; and

 (b) ask each applicant (including each additional applicant) to make a statutory declaration stating whether the applicant is affiliated with another applicant and, if so, identifying the other applicant and giving details of the affiliation.

 (2) The updated information does not need to include an applicant who has withdrawn its application.

 (3) The ACMA must state a deadline, at least 10 working days after the date of the request, before which the statutory declaration must be received by the ACMA.

 (4) If an applicant (including an additional applicant) does not give the ACMA a statutory declaration in accordance with this section by the deadline stated under subsection (3) (or, if the ACMA agrees to a later deadline, the agreed deadline), the applicant is taken to have withdrawn its application.

 (5) If the ACMA is satisfied that 2 or more applicants are affiliated, the procedures in sections 44 and 45 apply.

 (6) The ACMA must tell an applicant in writing if it is taken to have withdrawn its application under subsection (4).