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#### 291A Location dependent carriage services
(1) Sections 276 and 277 do not prohibit a disclosure by a person of information or a document if:
(a) the information or document relates to information (other than information relating to an unlisted telephone number) contained in an integrated public number database; and
(b) the disclosure is to a carrier or a carriage service provider; and
(c) the disclosure is made for a purpose of, or is connected with, the supply, or proposed supply, by a person of a location dependent carriage service.
(2) Sections 276 and 277 do not prohibit a disclosure or use by a carrier or a carriage service provider of information or a document if:
(a) the information or document relates to information (other than information relating to an unlisted telephone number) contained in an integrated public number database; and
(b) the disclosure or use is made for a purpose of, or is connected with, the supply, or proposed supply, by a person of a location dependent carriage service.
(3) In this section:
> integrated public number database means:
(a) an integrated public number database maintained by Telstra Limited as mentioned in Part 4 of Schedule 2; or
(b) an integrated public number database maintained by a person as mentioned in section 472.
> location dependent carriage service means a carriage service that depends for its provision on the availability of information about the addresses of end users of the carriage service.