Consultation with Communications Access Coordinator
56A Consultation with Communications Access Coordinator
The ACMA must not grant a carrier licence unless it has consulted a Communications Access Coordinator about the licence application.
Within 15 business days after the date on which the ACMA received the licence application, a Communications Access Coordinator may give a written notice to the ACMA, stating that no further consultation about the application is required. The notice cannot be revoked.
Under section 53A, the application is treated as not being received by the ACMA until a copy has been received by a Communications Access Coordinator.
Within 15 business days after the date on which the ACMA received the licence application, a Communications Access Coordinator may give a written notice to the ACMA:
stating that, while the notice remains in force, the ACMA must not grant the carrier licence; and
specifying the period during which the notice remains in force (unless earlier revoked), which period cannot end more than 3 months after the date of the notice.
However, a Communications Access Coordinator cannot give such a notice if a Communications Access Coordinator has earlier given a notice under subsection (2) in relation to the application.
At any time while a notice is in force under subsection (3), or under this subsection, a Communications Access Coordinator may give a further written notice to the ACMA:
stating that, while the notice remains in force, the ACMA must not grant the carrier licence; and
specifying the period during which the notice remains in force (unless earlier revoked), which period cannot end more than 3 months after the date of the notice or more than 12 months after the date of the notice under subsection (3).
A Communications Access Coordinator may, by notice in writing to the ACMA, revoke a notice under subsection (3) or (4).
A Communications Access Coordinator cannot issue a further notice under subsection (3) or (4) in respect of the application after a Communications Access Coordinator has revoked such a notice.
The ACMA must give the applicant a copy of each notice that the ACMA receives from a Communications Access Coordinator under subsection (3), (4) or (5).
The ACMA must not grant the carrier licence while a notice is in force under subsection (3) or (4).
In this section:
business day means a day on which the ACMA is open for business in the Australian Capital Territory and in Victoria.
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