Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 No. 47 of 1997 - SECT 458

(1) The ACA must not make a numbering plan that sets out rules about the
matter mentioned in paragraph 455(5)(d) (portability of allocated numbers)
unless the ACA is directed to do so by the ACCC under subsection (2).

(2) The ACCC may give written directions to the ACA in relation to the
exercise of the power to determine a numbering plan setting out rules as
mentioned in subsection (1).

(3) In exercising the power conferred by subsection (1), the ACCC must ensure
that, at all times when the numbering plan is in force, the plan sets out
rules about the matter mentioned in paragraph 455(5)(d).

(4) The ACA must exercise its powers under section 455 in a manner consistent
with any directions given by the ACCC under subsection (2).

(5) In exercising the power conferred by subsection (2), the ACCC must have
regard to whether portability of particular allocated numbers is required in
order to promote the long-term interests of end-users of carriage services or
of services supplied by means of carriage services.

(6) For the purposes of this section, the question whether a particular thing
promotes the long-term interests of end-users of carriage services or of
services supplied by means of carriage services is to be determined in the
same manner as that question is determined for the purposes of Part XIC of the
Trade Practices Act  1974 .