Telecommunications (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1997 (59 of 1997)

Part 3   Transitional

Division 1   Transitional provisions relating to the merger of AUSTEL and the SMA

14   References in instruments to the SMA become references to the ACA

(1) For the purposes of this section, an eligible instrument is an instrument that:

(a) was in force immediately before the merging time; and

(b) contains a reference to the SMA or the Spectrum Manager.

(2) The Minister may, by writing, declare that a specified eligible instrument has effect as if each reference in the instrument to the SMA, or to the Spectrum Manager, as the case may be, were a reference to the ACA, or to the Chairman of the ACA, as the case requires.

Note: An instrument may be specified by name, by inclusion in a specified class or in any other way.

(3) A declaration under subsection (2) has effect accordingly.