Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 291A

             (1)  Sections 276 and 277 do not prohibit a disclosure by a person of information or a document if:

                     (a)  the information or document relates to information (other than information relating to an unlisted telephone number) contained in an integrated public number database; and

                     (b)  the disclosure is to a carrier or a carriage service provider; and

                     (c)  the disclosure is made for a purpose of, or is connected with, the supply, or proposed supply, by a person of a location dependent carriage service.

             (2)  Sections 276 and 277 do not prohibit a disclosure or use by a carrier or a carriage service provider of information or a document if:

                     (a)  the information or document relates to information (other than information relating to an unlisted telephone number) contained in an integrated public number database; and

                     (b)  the disclosure or use is made for a purpose of, or is connected with, the supply, or proposed supply, by a person of a location dependent carriage service.

             (3)  In this section:

"integrated public number database" means:

                     (a)  an integrated public number database maintained by Telstra as mentioned in Part 4 of Schedule 2; or

                     (b)  an integrated public number database maintained by a person as mentioned in section 472.

"location dependent carriage service" means a carriage service that depends for its provision on the availability of information about the addresses of end users of the carriage service.