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54  Registration process

 (1) The ACMA must register a person as a bidder in the allocation process if and only if:

 (a) the later of the eligibility deadline or extended eligibility deadline (if there is one) has passed; and

 (b) the person has made a valid application under section 34, 45 or 50, including updating, adding to or replacing a document in an application under another provision of this instrument; and

 (c) the person has not withdrawn, and is not taken by a provision of this instrument to have withdrawn, its application; and

 (d) subject to subsection (2):

 (i) the person has made an eligibility payment (including an additional eligibility payment) or given the ACMA a deed of financial security (or both) under, or for the purposes of, section 41; and

 (ii) if a deed of financial security has been given—the ACMA is satisfied that the person who executed the deed is a person mentioned in subsection 41(5).

 (2) Paragraph (1)(d) does not apply in relation to an applicant who applied to be directly allocated a leftover lot.

 (3) After the later of the eligibility deadline or extended eligibility deadline (if there is one), the ACMA must tell a bidder in writing that the bidder has been registered and may participate in the allocation process, and give the bidder the following:

 (a) a copy of the information recorded on the register for the bidder;

 (b) the ACMA’s email address and telephone number available for use by bidders;

 (c) information about the leftover lots directly allocated under Division 1 of Part 5, and the bidders to whom those lots were allocated;

 (d) information about accessing the auction system;

 (e) information about how to make an entry and a bid by alternative methods if the bidder is unable to make an entry or a bid using the auction system.