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Telecommunications Act 1991
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##### 314 Public may request information
(1) A person may request AUSTEL to make available to the person:
(a) specified information or documents on the basis of which AUSTEL has made its assessment under section 308 for a financial year; or
(b) specified information about how AUSTEL has worked out the matters that such an assessment sets out because of subsection 308(2).
(2) Subject to subsection (3), AUSTEL must comply with a request as provided in section 316.
(3) AUSTEL must not make available under this section:
(a) information (other than information prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph):
(i) that was obtained from, or relates to, a carrier; and
(ii) the making available of which under this section can reasonably be expected to cause substantial damage to the carrier’s commercial or other interests; or
(b) information prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph; or
(c) so much of a document as sets out information of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).