Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 463

  (1)   The ACMA may, by legislative instrument, determine an allocation system for allocating specified numbers to carriage service providers.

  (2)   Before so determining the system, the ACMA must consult the ACCC.

  (3)   A system so determined:

  (a)   may apply generally or in respect of a particular area; and

  (b)   may require payment of an application fee.

  (4)   A system so determined may:

  (a)   impose limits on the quantity of numbers that the ACMA may allocate to:

  (i)   any one person; or

  (ii)   a specified person; or

  (b)   impose limits on the quantity of numbers that the ACMA may, in total, allocate to the members of a specified group of persons.

Note:   Persons or groups may be specified by name, by inclusion in a specified class or in any other way.

  (5)   Subsections   (3) and (4) do not, by implication, limit subsection   (1).

  (6)   A system so determined must provide for:

  (a)   the successful applicant for the allocation of a particular number; and

  (b)   an amount, to be known as the eligible amount, in relation to the allocation of that number;

to be determined by reference to the results of:

  (c)   a tender process; or

  (d)   a public auction; or

  (e)   another process;

carried out or conducted as provided by the system.

  (7)   The ACMA may enter into an arrangement with a person about the collection, on behalf of the ACMA, of fees of a kind referred to in subsection   (3).

  (8)   The ACMA may delegate any of the powers conferred on the ACMA by an allocation system to the numbering scheme manager or another person.