Commonwealth of Australia

Telecommunications Act 1997

Telecommunications Technical Standard

(Line Isolation Devices—ACA TS 025 – 1997)

THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY, makes the following technical standard under subsection 376 (1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated  4 December    1997

A.J. SHAW

Chairman

R. HORTON

Deputy Chairman

AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY

Title

 1. This Technical Standard may be cited as ACA TS 025 – 19971.

[NOTE:  This Standard takes effect on gazettal:  see Telecommunications Act 1997 s. 376 (5).]

Definitions

 2. In this Standard:

“ACA” means the Australian Communications Authority;

“Airservices Australia equipment” means equipment or systems, other than those used for telephony, used by Airservices Australia for the purposes of air navigation;

“LID” means Line Isolation Device, being customer equipment connected between Airservices Australia equipment and a telecommunications network;

“the Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Standard for LIDs connected to a telecommunications network

 3. For paragraphs 376 (2) (a), (b), (c) and (d) of the Act, the standard for interworking requirements for LIDs that facilitate isolation between:

 (a) Airservices Australia equipment;  and

 (b) a telecommunications network;

 is the standard set out in the document known as “ACA TS 025 – 1997” approved by the ACA in the ACA meeting of 26 November 1997.

NOTE

1.  Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on  1997.