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Telecommunications Act 1991
274Applications for variation of cabling licences
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##### 274 Applications for variation of cabling licences
(1) A person may apply to AUSTEL to vary a cabling licence under section 273.
(2) The application must:
(a) be in the form approved by AUSTEL; and
(b) be accompanied by the payment of the appropriate fee.
(3) The approved form of application may provide for verification by statutory declaration of statements in applications.
(4) Where AUSTEL decides not to vary the licence, it must give to the applicant written notice that the application is refused, together with:
(a) its reasons for the refusal; and
(b) a statement to the effect that the applicant may, within 21 days after receiving the notice, apply to AUSTEL for reconsideration of the refusal.
(5) If, at the end of 30 days after an application under this section for the variation of a cabling licence has been made, AUSTEL has not varied the licence, or given to the applicant notice under subsection 275(1) for variation of the licence, AUSTEL is taken, for the purposes of section 284:
(a) to have decided, on the last of the 30 days, not to vary the licence; and
(b) to have informed the applicant accordingly on that day.