Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997 (Amendment No. 2 of 2002) (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Telecommunications Act 1997

Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997

(Amendment No. 2 of 2002)

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     2002.

Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

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1. Name of Declaration

This Declaration is the Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997 (Amendment No. 2 of 2002).

1. Commencement

This Declaration commences on gazettal.

3     Amendment of the Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997

Schedule 1 amends the Carrier Licence Conditions (Telstra Corporation Limited) Declaration 1997.

Schedule 1          Amendments

(clause 3)

[1]     Clause 3, definition of “public payphone”

substitute

“public payphone” means a payphone:

(a)in a public place that is a place where the public usually has access, or usually has access except for particular hours of the day or particular days of the week; or

(b)in a prison, correctional centre, detention centre or similar facility.

[2]     Subclause 11(2)

omit the subclause

[3]     After clause 21

insert

Low-income measures             

22.    (1)    By 1 July 2002, the licensee must offer, or have a plan for offering, products and arrangements to low-income customers (the low-income package) that has been:

(a)     endorsed by low-income consumer advocacy groups; and

(b)    notified in writing to the ACA.

(2)    The low-income package must include details of the dates by which products or arrangements not offered to low-income customers from 1 July 2002 will be offered to such customers.

(3)    The licensee must comply with the low-income package as in force or existing from time to time.

(4)    The licensee must maintain and adequately resource a Low-income Measures Assessment Committee (LIMAC), comprising representatives of such organisations as are approved by the Minister in writing from time to time.

(5)    The role of LIMAC will be:

(a)to assess proposed changes to the low-income package or to the marketing plan for the low-income package; and

(b)to report annually to the Minister on the effectiveness of the low-income package and of its marketing by the licensee.

(6)    From 1 July 2002, the licensee must have in place a marketing plan for making low-income consumers aware of the low-income package, being a plan that has been approved by LIMAC.

(7)    The licensee must seek and consider the views of LIMAC before it makes any significant change to the low-income package.

Note: It is intended that the licensee may make minor non-substantive changes to the low-income package (such as minor editorial or typographical corrections) without having to seek and consider the views of LIMAC.  LIMAC is to be consulted on other proposed changes to the low-income package.

(8)    If the licensee makes a significant change to the low-income package, the licensee must give the ACA a revised version of the package incorporating the change.