Communications Regulation (Amendment) Act 2007
PART 4 Amendment of Competition Act 2002 | ||
Amendment of section 3 of Competition Act 2002 (interpretation). |
22.— Section 3 of the Competition Act 2002 is amended as follows: | |
(a) by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition before the definition of “authorised officer”: | ||
“ ‘ associated facilities ’, in relation to an electronic communications undertaking, has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Communications Regulation Act 2002 (No. 20 of 2002);”; | ||
(b) in subsection (1), by repealing the definition of “Commission”; | ||
(c) by inserting in subsection (1) the following definitions before the definition of “conditional determination”: | ||
“ ‘ Commission’ means the Commission for Communications Regulation established by Part 2 of the Communications Regulation Act 2002 ; | ||
‘ competent authority ’— | ||
(a) except as provided by paragraph (b), means the Competition Authority, and | ||
(b) if the Competition Authority and the Commission have, under section 47E, agreed that the Commission should, in relation to a particular matter, perform the functions conferred on the relevant authority by Part 2, or the Minister has made a determination under that section that the Commission should exercise those functions in relation to that matter, also means the Commission; | ||
‘ Competition Authority ’ means the Authority continued by section 29;”; | ||
(d) by inserting in subsection (1) after the definition of “director” the following definitions: | ||
“ ‘ electronic communications network ’ has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Communications Regulation Act 2002 ; | ||
‘ electronic communications service ’ has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Communications Regulation Act 2002 ; | ||
‘ electronic communications undertaking ’ means an undertaking that provides an electronic communications network or an electronic communications service or associated facilities;”. |