Telecommunications (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1996

No. 73 1

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Telecommunications (General) Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Telecommunications Act 1991.

Dated 29 May 1996.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RICHARD ALSTON

Minister for Communications and the Arts

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Telecommunications (General) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Regulation 2 (Interpretation)

2.1   Regulation 2 (definition of “earth station”):

Omit “Regulations.”, substitute “Regulations;”.

2.2   Regulation 2:

After the definition of “earth station”, insert:

“ ‘person to person connection’ means a connection established with the assistance of an operator for the purposes of a caller communicating with a particular person specified by the caller.”.

3.   New regulations 7A and 7B

3.1   After regulation 7, insert:

Connections that are not timed connections

 “7A.(1) For the purposes of subsection 305 (2) of the Act, the following connections are prescribed:

• (a)

  a connection for a local call;

• (b)

  a connection for a call made to an operator for the purposes of the caller requesting the assistance of the operator to establish:

  • (i)

    a person to person connection; or

  • (ii)

    a connection that is known as a ‘number to number connection’.

 “(2) In this regulation:

‘charging zone’ means a charging zone specified in the table in attachment 3 to the document known as the ‘Telstra Public Switched Telephone Service Tariff’ forming part of the document known as the ‘Telstra Basic Carriage Service Tariff’ as in force from time to time;

‘local call’ means a call that is dialled directly by a caller and made from a charging zone in the domestic public switched telecommunications network to a telephone service in the same, or an immediately adjacent, charging zone.

Calculation of timed traffic—certain parts of timed connections to be disregarded

 “7B.(1) For the purposes of subsection 305 (5) of the Act, the call set up time in respect of a person to person connection must be disregarded.

 “(2) In this regulation:

‘call set up time’ means that part of the duration of a person to person connection:

• (a)

  commencing when the connection is established; and

• (b)

  ending when:

  • (i)

    the caller communicates with the particular person; or

  • (ii)

    the connection ends;

 whichever first occurs.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 June 1996.

2. Statutory Rules 1991 No. 200 as amended by 1991 No. 425; 1993 No. 285; 1994 No. 135; 1995 No. 241.