Telecommunications Amendment (Local Access Lines—Class Exemptions) Regulations 2022
I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 03 March 2022
David Hurley
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Paul Fletcher
Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts
Contents
1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1
3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1
4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1
Schedule 1—Amendments 2
Telecommunications Regulations 2021 2
1 Name
This instrument is the Telecommunications Amendment (Local Access Lines—Class Exemptions) Regulations 2022.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. | 5 March 2022 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under the Telecommunications Act 1997.
4 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Telecommunications Regulations 2021
1 After Part 3
Insert:
Part 3A—Local access lines
13A Supply of eligible services to be on wholesale basis—class exemptions
For the purposes of the following provisions of the Act, the higher number of 12,000 is specified:
(a) subparagraph 143A(1)(d)(ii);
(b) subparagraph 143A(1)(e)(ii);
(c) subparagraph 143A(2)(d)(ii);
(d) subparagraph 143A(2)(e)(ii).