Legislation
Trade Practices Amendment (Infrastructure Access) Act 2010
Overview
The Parliamentary bill summary describes the Act as follows:
Amends the National Access Regime in Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act 1974 in relation to: binding time limits and limited merits review; applications by certain persons that a certain service is ineligible to be a declared service; enabling the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to accept access undertakings with fixed principles that will apply to subsequent undertakings; enabling the ACCC to issue an amendment notice proposing amendments to a proposed access undertaking submitted by a service provider; administrative processes of the National Competition Council and the Australian Competition Tribunal; and consequential amendments.
The Minister (Dr Emerson) sets out more detail about the Act in his second reading speech.
Key provisions
Forthcoming
Commentary
