87GScale of damages for breach of performance standards

87G Scale of damages for breach of performance standards

(1) AUSTEL may, by written instrument, specify a scale of damages for contraventions of standards under section 87E. (2) The scale must:

(a) specify categories of contraventions; and

(b) specify a dollar amount as the amount of damages payable for contraventions covered by each of those categories.

(3) A dollar amount specified in accordance with paragraph (2)(b) must not exceed $25,000. (4) A category may be specified by reference to contraventions that continue over a specified number of days. (5) Subsection (4) does not, by implication, limit the ways in which a category may be specified. (6) An instrument under this section is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.