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This instrument amends the Telecommunications Regulations 2021 to increase the customer limit above which controllers of local access lines used to provide superfast carriage services are subject to wholesale-only, or structural separation, requirements.
Administered by: Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Registered 04 Mar 2022
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled Senate28-Mar-2022
Tabled HR29-Mar-2022
Date of repeal 27 Sep 2022
Repealed by Division 1 of Part 3 of Chapter 3 of the Legislation Act 2003
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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

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 1Amendments

  

Telecommunications Regulations 2021

1  After Part 3

Insert:

Part 3ALocal 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).