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Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Conditions) Amendment (Networks supplying Superfast Carriage Services to Residential Customers) Instrument 2022

I, MICHELLE ROWLAND, Minister for Communications make the following instrument.

Dated 1 December 2022

MICHELLE ROWLAND

Minister for Communications

1 Name

This instrument is the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Conditions) Amendment (Networks supplying Superfast Carriage Services to Residential Customers) Instrument 2022.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 63(5) of 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Carrier Licence Conditions (Networks supplying Superfast Carriage Services to Residential Customers) Declaration 2014

1 Paragraph 5(1)(c) (Application)

Omit the paragraph, substitute:

(c) no functional separation undertaking relating to local access lines forming part of the designated telecommunications network given by the specified carrier or any of its associates is in force.

2 Subsection 5(2) (Application)

Omit the subsection, substitute:

(2) A reference in paragraph (1)(c) to a functional separation undertaking given by a specified carrier or an associate of the specified carrier is a reference to a functional separation undertaking given by the specified carrier or the associate (as the case may be) either:

(a) alone; or

(b) jointly with one or more other persons.