34Requirement for new application

34 Requirement for new application

(1) If a group of affiliated applicants notified by the ACMA under subsection 33(1) decides to submit a new application, the new applicant must be a body corporate whose only members are one or more of those affiliated applicants. (2) The new applicant must, within 10 working days of the ACMA notifying the affiliated applicants under subsection 33(1): (a) give the ACMA a completed application form; and (b) pay the application fee.

Note: For information on how the application fee must be paid, see section 7.

(3) If the ACMA receives a completed application form and application fee under subsection (2), the ACMA must give each applicant (including the new applicant) updated details about the identity of all other applicants and the persons identified as the associates of other applicants. (4) The updated details do not need to include details about those applicants who have already withdrawn their applications. (5) The new applicant must, no later than 3 working days after the ACMA gives the new applicant the updated details (or, if the ACMA agrees to a later time, the agreed time), give the ACMA: (a) a deed of acknowledgement; and (b) a deed of confidentiality executed by the new applicant; and (c) a statutory declaration that the new applicant is not affiliated with any other applicant in the updated details. (6) The ACMA must not accept a new application under this section unless it is satisfied that the new applicant is not affiliated with any applicant who has not withdrawn its application, including another new applicant.