140Minister may determine principles to govern charging for access

##### 140 Minister may determine principles to govern charging for access (1) The Minister may determine in writing principles that are to be applied in agreeing on or determining terms and conditions about charges payable by a specified carrier or carriers to any other specified carrier or carriers for: (a) interconnection of facilities to networks of the other carrier or carriers under subsection 137(2); or (b) the supply of telecommunications services to the first-mentioned carrier or carriers by the other carrier or carriers under subsection 137(3); or (c) the supply of facilities for the purposes of such interconnection, or in connection with the supply of services as mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subsection; or (d) the grant of rights or interests, or the supply of goods or services, as required by a supplementary access condition or conditions; or (e) matters related to a matter of a kind referred to in a preceding paragraph. (2) A determination under subsection (1) may require the terms and conditions to include: (a) specified price-cap provisions, or other price control provisions, relating to the charges; or (b) specified provisions in accordance with which the charges are to be altered; or both. (3) A determination under subsection (1) may require the terms and conditions: (a) to fix, at amounts or rates specified in the determination, charges for matters that are so specified and each of which is of a kind referred to in a paragraph of subsection (1); or (b) to provide for charges for such matters to be worked out in accordance with methods so specified. (4) Nothing in any of subsections (1), (2) and (3) limits the generality of anything else in any of those subsections. (5) An instrument under this section is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.