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Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999
102PAccess to information or documents held by a carrier or carriage service provider
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#### 102P Access to information or documents held by a carrier or carriage service provider
Scope
(1) This section applies to a carrier or carriage service provider if the ACMA believes on reasonable grounds that the carrier or carriage service provider has information or a document that is relevant to the operation of:
(a) Division 4, 5, 6 or 7 of this Part; or
(b) subsection 102ZFA(4); or
(c) the Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Act 2020.
Requirement
(2) The ACMA may, by written notice given to the carrier or carriage service provider, require the carrier or carriage service provider:
(a) to give to the ACMA, within the period and in the manner and form specified in the notice, any such information; or
(b) to produce to the ACMA, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice, any such documents; or
(c) to make copies of any such documents and to produce to the ACMA, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice, those copies.
(3) A period specified under subsection (2) must not be shorter than 14 days after the notice is given.
Compliance
(4) A carrier or carriage service provider must comply with a requirement under subsection (2) to the extent that the carrier or carriage service provider is capable of doing so.
(5) A carrier or carriage service provider commits an offence if:
(a) the ACMA has given a notice to the carrier or carriage service provider under subsection (2); and
(b) the carrier or carriage service provider engages in conduct; and
(c) the carrier’s conduct, or the carriage service provider’s conduct, contravenes a requirement in the notice.
Penalty for contravention of this subsection: 50 penalty units.