Telecommunications (Carrier Licence and Nominated Carrier Declaration Exemption—Wireless Network Unit) Determination 2019

Dated   18 September 2019                             

Paul Fletcher

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Definitions................................................................................................................................ 1

5  Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1

6  Exemptions............................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Repeals                                                                                                     3

Determination under subsection 51(1) (No. 1 of 2002)                                                                 3

1  Name

                   This instrument is the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence and Nominated Carrier Declaration Exemption—Wireless Network Unit) Determination 2019.

2  Commencement

                   This instrument commences on the day it is registered.

3  Authority

                   This instrument is made under subsection 51(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

4  Definitions

Note:          A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 7 of the Act, including the following:

(a)    base station that is part of a terrestrial radiocommunications customer access network;

(b)    carriage service;

(c)    carrier licence;

(d)    distinct places;

(e)    line link;

(f)    network unit;

(g)    nominated carrier declaration.

                   In this instrument:

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

fixed-line network means a network made up of one or more line links.

Wireless Network Unit means a network unit which is a base station that is part of a terrestrial radiocommunications customer access network.

5  Schedules

                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

6  Exemption

                   Section 42 of the Act does not apply in relation to a Wireless Network Unit where:

                     (a)  the Wireless Network Unit is used to supply a carriage service to users where the users are not in a distinct place from the Wireless Network Unit; and

                     (b)  a carrier licence or a nominated carrier declaration is not, or would not be, required under section 42 of the Act in respect of the use of a fixed-line network to supply a carriage service under the same circumstances as referred to in paragraph (a).

Schedule 1—Repeals

Determination under subsection 51(1) (No. 1 of 2002)

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.