Telecommunications Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2002 No. 992

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated 16 May 2002

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

RICHARD ALSTON

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Telecommunications Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3 Amendment of Telecommunications Regulations 2001

  Schedule 1 amends the Telecommunications Regulations 2001.

Schedule 1 Amendment

(regulation 3)

[1] After regulation 5.1

insert

5.1A Disclosure of information to National Relay Service provider (Act s 292 (1))

 (1) For subsection 292 (1) of the Act, the following circumstances apply to a disclosure or use of information or a document:

 (a) the disclosure must be made by or on behalf of a carrier or carriage service provider;

 (b) the disclosure must be made to the NRS provider;

 (c) the information or document must relate the use of the National Relay Service by a person (the third person);

 (d) the disclosure must be made for a purpose of, or must be connected with, the supply, or proposed supply, of the National Relay Service to the third person by the NRS provider.

 (2) In this regulation:

National Relay Service has the meaning given by section 94 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.

NRS provider has the meaning given by section 94 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2001 No. 65, as amended by 2001 No. 338.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 May 2002.