Telecommunications (Standard Agreements) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1997No. 349 1

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Telecommunications (Standard Agreements) Regulations

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated 8 December 1997.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RICHARD ALSTON

Minister for Communications, the Information Economy

and the Arts

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Citation

 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunications (Standard Agreements) Regulations.

[NOTE:  These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s 48.]

Definitions

 2. In these Regulations:

“Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1997;

“standard agreement” means a standard form of agreement formulated by a carriage service provider for section 479 of the Act.

Carriage services

 3. For paragraph 479 (1) (b) of the Act, the following kinds of carriage services are specified:

• (a)

  a carriage service for voice telephony;

• (b)

  a carriage service for data transmission;

• (c)

  a carriage service for tone signalling;

• (d)

  a carriage service for a live or recorded information service.

Ancillary goods

 4. For paragraph 479 (1) (c) of the Act, the following kinds of ancillary goods are specified:

• (a)

  goods for use in connection with a standard telephone service;

• (b)

  goods for use in connection with a carriage service specified in regulation 3.

Ancillary services

 5.For paragraph 479 (1) (d) of the Act, the following kinds of ancillary services are specified:

• (a)

  a service for use in connection with a standard telephone service;

• (b)

  a service for use in connection with a carriage service specified in regulation 3.

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NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette