Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 69 of 1987 - SECT 7

7. After section 34B of the Principal Act, the following section is inserted:
Commission may establish etc. telecommunications services for foreign
countries

"34C. (1) With the approval of the Minister, the Commission may engage in
activities relating to the establishment, operation, provision or maintenance
of domestic or international telecommunications services in or for a foreign
country.

"(2) Where, under subsection (1), the Minister authorises the Commission to
engage in certain activities, the Commission may do all things necessary or
convenient to be done for or in connection with its engaging in those
activities.

"(3) The powers of the Commission conferred by subsection (2) may be exercised
in the foreign country or in any other place (including Australia or another
country).

"(4) The Commission shall not do any act or thing in a country that is not in
accordance with the law of the country.".