Telecommunications (Integrated Public Number Database Public Number Directory Additional Information) Instrument 2007 (No. 1) (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Telecommunications Act 1997

Telecommunications (Integrated Public Number

Database – Public Number Directory Additional  Information) Instrument 2007 (No. 1)

I, HELEN LLOYD COONAN, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, make the following instrument under subsection 285(4) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated 4 May 2007

HELEN LLOYD COONAN

Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

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1. Name of instrument

   This instrument is the Telecommunications (Integrated Public Number Database – Public Number Directory Additional Information) Instrument 2007 (No. 1).

2. Commencement

   This instrument commences on the same day as Schedule 1 to the Telecommunications Amendment (Integrated Public Number Database) Act 2006.

   3             Definitions

   In this instrument:

   Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

   integrated public number database scheme means the scheme in force under section 295A of the Act.

   public number directory has the meaning given by subsection 285(2) of the Act.

   public number directory authorisation has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications (Integrated Public Number Database Scheme – Conditions for Authorisations) Determination 2007 (No. 1).

   public number directory publisher means a holder of a public number directory authorisation issued under the integrated public number database scheme.

   qualifying entity has the meaning given by subsection 285(2) of the Act.

   4             Specification

   (1)    Information that a qualifying entity and a public number directory publisher have agreed orally or in writing to include in a public number directory is specified for the purposes of subparagraph (c)(i) of the definition of public number directory in subsection 285(2) of the Act.

   (2)    Where a qualifying entity and public number directory publisher have an oral agreement under subclause (1), the public number directory publisher must create and retain a record of the agreement for a minimum period of 2 years or, if the Act or regulations specify a longer period, that longer period.