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Telecommunications Act 1991
139AUSTEL’s role in negotiations for access agreements
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##### 139 AUSTEL’s role in negotiations for access agreements
(1) Where 2 or more carriers propose to negotiate, or are negotiating, with a view to:
(a) agreeing on terms and conditions for the purposes of subsection 137(2) or (3) or of one or more supplementary access conditions; or
(b) agreeing on a variation of an access agreement to which they are parties;
any or all of them may request AUSTEL in writing to arrange for a representative of AUSTEL to attend the negotiations.
(2) AUSTEL must comply with the request or requests by taking steps to ensure that a person of a kind referred to in paragraph 405(a), (b) or (c) attends the negotiations on its behalf.