Following passage of the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Act 2010, Division 4 of Part XIC of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (now the Competition and Consumer Act 2010) was repealed.
Division 4 of Part XIC provided the ACCC with the power to make an access code that set out model terms and conditions upon which an access provider would, upon request, supply a relevant service to an access seeker. Such a code had to be capable of being adopted by an access provider within an access undertaking. However, an access provider was not obliged to adopt the access code in undertakings it could have proffered to the ACCC.
Prior to that access codes could be developed by the Telecommunications Access Forum (TAF) and submitted to the ACCC for approval. The TAF was dissolved in 2002. Before its dissolution the TAF developed an access code. It was approved by the ACCC in 1998.
