Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if—
(a) a service provider is likely to stop supplying a registered service; and
(b) there is no other entity willing to take over the operation of all or part of the service provider's infrastructure for the service.
(2) The service provider must give the regulator at least 60 business days notice of the possible stoppage unless the service provider has a reasonable excuse for not giving the notice.
Note—
See section 530(1)(a) (Governor in Council may appoint administrator to operate infrastructure).
Maximum penalty—1000 penalty units.
(3) The notice must—
(a) be in the approved form; and
(b) state the day by which the service provider intends to stop supplying the service.
(4) The regulator may require—
(a) the service provider to give additional information about the notice; or
(b) any information included in the notice, or any additional information required under paragraph (a), to be verified by statutory declaration.
(5) If the service provider fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with the requirement within the reasonable period stated in the requirement, the notice given under subsection (2) is of no effect.
(6) If the service provider continues supplying the service after the day stated in the notice—
(a) the notice ceases to have effect as a notice for subsection (2); and
(b) if the service provider is again likely to stop supplying the service—the service provider must give a further notice under subsection (2).
(7) If the service provider stops supplying the service, the service provider must give the regulator notice within 5 business days after stopping supply.
(8) The notice must—
(a) be in the approved form; and
(b) state the day on which the provider stopped supplying the service.