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Standards/Other as made
This Standard amends the Telecommunications (Do Not Call Register) (Telemarketing and Research Calls) Industry Standard 2007.
Administered by: Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Registered 07 Oct 2010
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR18-Oct-2010
Tabled Senate25-Oct-2010
Date of repeal 09 Aug 2013
Repealed by Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Spent and Redundant Instruments) Repeal Regulation 2013

The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY makes this Variation under subsection 130 (1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated 27 September 2010

 


Chris Chapman
[signed]
Member




Brendan Byrne
[signed]
Member/General Manager

 


 

1              Name of Variation

                This Variation is the Telecommunications (Do Not Call Register) (Telemarketing and Research Calls) Industry Standard Variation 2010 (No. 1).

2              Commencement

                This Variation commences on the day after it is registered.

3              Amendment of Telecommunications (Do Not Call Register) (Telemarketing and Research Calls) Industry Standard 2007

                Schedule 1 amends the Telecommunications (Do Not Call Register) (Telemarketing and Research Calls) Industry Standard 2007.

               


Schedule 1        Variation

  

[1]           Section 3, after the definition of Act

insert

                Australian number has the meaning given by section 4 of the Do Not Call Register Act 2006.  

[2]           Section 3 (definition of call recipient)

                omit telephone

[3]           Section 3 (definition of relevant telephone account-holder)

omit the definition, substitute

relevant account-holder has the meaning given by section 4 of the Do Not Call Register Act 2006.

[4]           Subsection 5(4)

omit telephone

[5]           Note to subsection 5(4)

omit telephone        

[6]           Paragraph 5(5)(a)

omit telephone (wherever occurring)

 [7]          Subparagraph 6(1)(j)(i)

omit telephone, substitute Australian

 [8]          Subsection 6(2)

omit the subsection, substitute

(2)      For subsection (1), and subject to subsection (3), a caller’s contact details include an Australian number suitable for receiving voice calls during normal business hours at the location of the call recipient, and 1 of the following:

                          (a)      street address;

                          (b)      postal or business address, other than a street address;

          (c)      email address.

[9]           Subsection 6(3)

omit the subsection, substitute

                (3)    If a call operator:

                        (a)        is also a caller; and

                                    (b)        makes calls from the caller’s residential address in the course of    

                                                acting as a call operator;

the caller’s contact details do not include an Australian number which is used by the caller principally for residential purposes, and the caller is not required to give that number to a call recipient.       

[10]         Paragraph 7(1)(a)

omit telephone (wherever occurring)           

[11]         Example after paragraph 7(1)(b)

                omit telephone (wherever occurring)

 

Note

1.         All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au.