Commonwealth of Australia
Telecommunications Act 1997
Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997 (Amendment No. 1 of 2000)
I, Richard KENNETH ROBERT Alston, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, make the following Declaration under subsection 63(5) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.
Dated 14 July 2000.

RICHARD ALSTON
Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
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Commencement
	1.	This Declaration commences on gazettal.
Variation
	2.	The Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997 is varied as set out in this Declaration.
Note: The Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997 was published in the Gazette on 30 June 1997.  It has since been varied by the following Declarations:
Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997 (Amendment No. 1 of 1998) (published in the Gazette on 4 March 1998).
Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997 (Amendment No. 1 of 1999) (published in the Gazette on 24 February 1999).
Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration (Amendment No. 2 of 1999) (published in the Gazette on 7 December 1999).
Provision of information about carriage services provided in extended charging zones (new clause)
	3.	After clause 15, insert:
	“Provision of information about carriage services provided in extended charging zones 
	16.	(1)	In this clause:
	extended charging zone has the meaning given by section 16 of the Telstra Public Switched Telephone Service Standard Form of Agreement, as in force at 31 December 1999.
	extended charging zone service information is any information in relation to carriage services provided by the licensee as at 31 December 1999 in any extended charging zone that is relevant to another person in deciding whether to offer, or on what terms to offer, to provide those services in relation to any tender process conducted by the Commonwealth for the provision of carriage services in an extended charging zone. 
(2)	If the Minister gives the licensee a notice in writing which specifies particular extended charging zone service information, the licensee, within 14 days or such longer period as is specified in the notice, must provide the information specified in that notice to the Commonwealth in the manner and in the format specified in the notice.
(3)	The licensee consents to the provision by the Commonwealth of extended charging zone service information specified in a notice given under subclause (2) to the following persons for purposes relating to any tender process conducted by the Commonwealth for the provision of carriage services in an extended charging zone:
(a)	any advisers to the Commonwealth in relation to the conduct of the tender process; and
(b)	any person entitled to submit a tender in the tender process.”.