Telecommunications Numbering Plan Amendment 2001 (No. 1) (Cth)

Telecommunications Numbering Plan Amendment 2001 (No. 1)

The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY makes this Plan under section 455 of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated 7 March 2001

A J SHAW
Chair

R HORTON

Deputy Chair

Australian Communications Authority

1. Name of Plan

This Plan is the Telecommunications Numbering Plan Amendment 2001 (No. 1).

1. Commencement

This Plan commences on gazettal.

1. Amendment of Telecommunications Numbering Plan 1997

Schedule 1 amends the Telecommunications Numbering Plan 1997.

Schedule 1          Amendments

(section 3)

1. Section 7.2, boxed note

omit

·carriage service providers make and keep records about the allocated numbers they transfer or receive

1. Section 7.2, boxed note, 4th dot point

before

transfers

insert

permanent

1. Sections 7.5, 7.6 and 7.7

substitute

7.5Advising ACA of permanent transfer of number

(1)If a carriage service provider permanently transfers a number to another carriage service provider, the providers must jointly give the ACA written notice of:

(a)the number being transferred; and

(b)the date of the transfer; and

(c)the company or business name of both providers; and

(d)the ACN or ARBN (if any) of both providers; and

(e)the postal address of both providers.

Note Under section 87 of the Act, a carriage service intermediary described in the section is a form of carriage service provider.

(2)The statement must be signed and dated, for a provider, by a person authorised to do so by the provider.

(3)As soon as practicable after receiving the notice, the designated authority within the meaning of subsection 465 (1) of the Act must amend information in the Register maintained under subsections 465 (2) and (3) of the Act in accordance with the notice.