293Universal service carrier must propose service areas for declaration as net cost areas

##### 293 Universal service carrier must propose service areas for declaration as net cost areas (1) A carrier that is a universal service carrier in relation to a financial year must, within the first 60 days of that financial year, give to AUSTEL a written notice that: (a) specifies service areas for which the carrier is the universal service carrier and that, in the carrier’s opinion, AUSTEL should declare under section 294 as net cost areas for the financial year; and (b) sets out why, in the carrier’s opinion, AUSTEL should so declare the specified areas. (2) Despite subsection (1), a carrier that, because of a declaration under subsection 290(1) or (2), is a universal service carrier in relation to the financial year beginning on 1 July 1991 must give to AUSTEL a notice of the kind referred to in subsection (1) of this section within 60 days after the later of: (a) the commencement of this subsection; and (b) notification of the declaration in the Gazette.