Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 49

  (1)   If the sole use of a network unit is use by an electricity supply body to carry communications necessary or desirable for:

  (a)   managing the generation, transmission, distribution or supply of electricity; or

  (b)   charging for the supply of electricity;

section   42 does not apply to the unit.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   the principal use of a network unit is use by an electricity supply body to carry communications necessary or desirable for:

  (i)   managing the generation, transmission, distribution or supply of electricity; or

  (ii)   charging for the supply of electricity; and

  (b)   the remaining use of the unit is use by one or more carriers, or by one or more exempt network - users, to supply carriage services and/or content services;

section   42 does not apply to the unit.

  (3)   In this section:

"electricity supply body" means an authority, or a body corporate, that carries on a business, or performs a function, of:

  (a)   generating, transmitting, distributing or supplying electricity; or

  (b)   managing the generation, transmission, distribution or supply of electricity.