Telecommunications Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1) (Cth)

Telecommunications Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 197

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated 24 July 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

RICHARD ALSTON

Minister for Communications, Information Technology

and the Arts

Telecommunications Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 1972

made under the

Telecommunications Act 1997

   

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1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Telecommunications Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Amendment of Telecommunications Regulations 1998

Schedule 1 amends the Telecommunications Regulations 1998.

Schedule 1Amendments

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Part 2Exceptions to the protection of information and documents

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5Disclosure of information by emergency call persons: research about emergency service numbers

• (1)

  For the purposes of subsection 292 (3) of the Act, the following circumstances apply to a disclosure or use of information or a document:

  • (a)

    the disclosure must be made by an emergency call person;

  • (b)

    the disclosure must be made to a person (the researcher) who is engaged by the ACA to conduct research, of a kind specified by the ACA, into the way in which emergency service numbers are dialled or used;

  • (c)

    the disclosure must be made solely for the purpose of allowing the researcher to conduct the research;

  • (d)

    the ACA and the researcher must have agreed that:

    • (i)

      the research for which the researcher is engaged is to be finished not later than 12 months after the researcher starts the research; and

    • (ii)

      the researcher will not disclose or use any information or document that is disclosed to the researcher except for the purpose of conducting the research.

• (2)

  Subregulation (1) does not authorise the disclosure or use of information or a document more than 12 months after the researcher starts the research.

Note The effect of this regulation is that section 278 of the Act will not prohibit a disclosure or use of information or a document in the circumstances specified in the regulation.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1998 No. 72.

2. Made by the Governor-General on 24 July 2000, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette