Telecommunications Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 3861

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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 1975.

Dated 15 December 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GARRY PUNCH

Minister of State for Telecommunications and Aviation Support

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Commencement

1. These Regulations commence on 1 January 1989.

2. After Regulation 40 of the Telecommunications Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Prescribed rentals and charges—subsection 11 (6) of the Act

“40a. (1) For the purposes of subsection 11 (6) of the Act, rentals and charges in respect of the following matters are prescribed rentals and charges:

(a) the supply and installation of telecommunications cables in the premises of a customer;

(b) the supply, installation and maintenance of value-added telecommunications services;

(c) the supply, installation and maintenance of customer equipment other than small business telecommunications systems.

“(2) In this regulation, ‘value-added telecommunications services’ does not include:

(a) basic public switched voice telecommunications services;

(b) the public switched data service;

(c) public switched text and video services;

(d) the public switched integrated services digital network;

(e) leased circuits;

(f) public mobile telephone services.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 December 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1975 No. 131 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1988 No. 167 and see also