Telecommunications Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1990 No. 3701

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Telecommunications Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Telecommunications Act 1989.

Dated 29 November 1990.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

KIM C. BEAZLEY

Minister of State for Transport

and Communications

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1. Commencement

1.1 These Regulations commence on 1 December 1990.

2. Amendment

2.1 The Telecommunications Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3. Regulation 2 (Interpretation)

3.1 Insert the following definitions:

“‘cellular mobile telephone handset’ means a telephone handset used in a telecommunications service consisting of:

(a) 1 or more handsets; and

(b) 2 or more base stations forming part of a public mobile telephone service where the area served by each base station (in this definition called a ‘cell’) is restricted; and

(c) 1 or more stations (in this definition called ‘mobile switching centres’) which:

(i) are able to communicate by means of radiocommunications with; or

(ii) are connected by a line to;

2 or more base stations and a public switched telephone network;

being a service where:

(d) the operator of a handset may communicate with other users of the public switched telephone network by means of radio signals between the handset and a base station; and

(e) as the operator of the handset moves from the cell of 1 base station into the cell of an adjoining base station—a mobile switching centre redirects the signals from the handset so that the signals that would otherwise have been channelled through the first-mentioned base station are channelled through the adjoining base station;

‘cordless telephone’ means a telephone consisting of:

(a) a base station connected by means of a line to a public switched telephone network; and

(b) 1 or more handsets:

(i) none of which is a cellular mobile telephone handset; and

(ii) none of which is connected by a line to the base station; and

(iii) by means of which communication may be achieved through the base station with other users of the public switched telephone network by the transmission of radio signals between the handset and the base station;”.

4. New regulation 2a

4.1 After regulation 2, insert:

Expansion of definition of “customer equipment”

“2a. For the purposes of the definition of ‘customer equipment’ in section 4 of the Act:

(a) cellular mobile telephone handsets; and

(b) cordless telephones;

are regarded as customer equipment.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 November 1990.

2. Statutory Rules 1989 No. 152 as amended by 1989 No. 418.