24.6. Where an application is made to the Minister by a local municipality owning equipment which it believes is of a supralocal nature, the Minister may request the Commission to carry out a study for the purpose of determining, in particular, the local or supralocal nature of the equipment.
An application may be made by a local municipality to the Minister if such equipment is owned by one of its mandataries.
The Minister may, on the Minister’s own initiative and if in the Minister’s opinion the intervention of the Commission may be useful to settle a dispute over the local or supralocal nature of equipment, the management of supralocal equipment, the financing of expenditures relating to supralocal equipment or the sharing of the revenue generated by such equipment, request the Commission to carry out the study provided for in the first paragraph.