Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Cabling Products – As/CA S008:2010) 2011 (Cth)

Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Cabling Products – AS/CA S008:2010) 2011

Telecommunications Act 1997

The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY makes this Technical Standard under subsection 376 (1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated 20 April 2011

Chris Chapman

[signed]
Member

Richard Bean

[signed]
Member/~~General Manager~~

Australian Communications and Media Authority

1 Name of Technical Standard

(1) This Technical Standard is the Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Cabling Products – AS/CA S008:2010) 2011.

(2) This Technical Standard may also be cited as AS/CA S008–2011.

Commencement

This Technical Standard commences on the day after it is registered.

Note: All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See type="1">
Definitions
   In this Technical Standard:
Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.
customer cabling products means passive devices (including any cable, connecting hardware or other cable-related customer equipment) that are intended for use on the customer side of the boundary of a telecommunications network, but does not include a:
(a)cabling product intended primarily for the distribution of AC mains supply;
(b)product intended to be used for telecommunications earthing systems or telecommunications power distribution; or
(c)surge suppression device.
mandatory requirement, for a standard, means a requirement in the standard that uses the words ‘shall’ or ‘shall not’.
Note 1 Several other words and expressions used in this Technical Standard have the meaning given by section 7 of the Act. For example:
·      customer equipment
·      telecommunications network.
Note 2   Subsection 374 (1) of the Act provides that a reference in Part 21 of the Act to a telecommunications network is a reference to a telecommunications network in Australia that is operated by a carrier or carriage service provider.
Objects of Technical Standard
   The requirements of this Technical Standard are necessary and convenient to meet the objectives mentioned in paragraphs 376 (2) (a) to (d) of the Act.
Application
   This Technical Standard applies to customer cabling products.
6              Requirement
Customer cabling products must comply with the mandatory requirements set out in the Australian Standard — Requirements for customer cabling products (AS/CA S008:2010), as published by Communications Alliance Ltd in October 2010.