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TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 556

Deadlines for reaching certain decisions

  (1)   This section applies to a decision of a kind referred to in section   555, other than a decision of a kind specified in Part   2 of Schedule   4.

  (2)   If this Act provides for a person to make an application to the ACMA for such a decision, the ACMA must make the decision:

  (a)   within 90 days after receiving the application; or

  (b)   if the ACMA has, within those 90 days, given the applicant a written request for further information about the application--within 90 days after receiving that further information.

  (3)   The ACMA is taken, for the purposes of this Part, to have made a decision to refuse the application if it has not informed the applicant of its decision before the end of the relevant period of 90 days.


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