Telecommunications Regulations 1998 (Cth)

Telecommunications Regulations 1998

Statutory Rules 1998 No. 72 as amended

made under the

Telecommunications Act 1997

This compilation was prepared on 12 April 2001

taking into account amendments up to SR 2001 No. 65

[Note: This Statutory Rule is repealed by SR 2001 No. 65]

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,

Attorney-General’s Department, Canberra

Contents

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Part 1Preliminary

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Part 2Exceptions to the protection of information and documents

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Part 1Preliminary

  

1Name of Regulations [see Note 1]

 These Regulations are the Telecommunications Regulations 1998.

2Commencement [see Note 1]

  These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Definition

 In these Regulations:

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Part 2Exceptions to the protection of information and documents

  

4Criminal law-enforcement agencies

  For paragraph (g) of the definition of criminal law-enforcement agency in subsection 282 (10) of the Act, the Police Integrity Commission of New South Wales is a prescribed authority.

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 to the Telecommunications Regulations 1998

Note 1

The Telecommunications Regulations 1998 (in force under the Telecommunications Act 1997) as shown in this compilation comprise Statutory Rules 1998 No. 72 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

Table of Statutory Rules

Year and number	Date of notification in Gazette	Date of commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions
1998 No. 72	5 May 1998	5 May 1998
2000 No. 197	31 July 2000	31 July 2000	—
2001 No. 65	12 Apr 2001	12 Apr 2001	—

Table of Amendments

ad. = added or inserted  am. = amended rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted
Provision affected	How affected
Heading to Part 2..................	rs. 2000 No. 197
R. 5..........................................	ad. 2000 No. 197