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Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency Act 2012
24Transitional—emergency call service
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#### 24 Transitional—emergency call service
If:
(a) before the commencement of this section, the Commonwealth entered into a contract with Telstra wholly or partly for a purpose relating to the achievement of the policy objective that end‑users of standard telephone services in Australia are to have access, free of charge, to an emergency call service; and
(b) as at the commencement of this section, the contract is in force;
then:
(c) this Act, and any other law of the Commonwealth, has effect as if the contract had been entered into by TUSMA under section 13 for a purpose relating to the achievement of that policy objective; and
(d) for the purposes of this Act, the contract is a designated transitional contract so far as the contract relates to the purpose referred to in paragraph (a).