Telecommunications Code of Practice (Installation Certificate Waivers) Amendment Instrument 2025

I, Michelle Rowland, Minister for Communications, make the following instrument.

Dated 28-02-2025

Michelle Rowland

Minister for Communications

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

1  Name

  This instrument is the Telecommunications Code of Practice (Installation Certificate Waivers) Amendment Instrument 2025.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subclause 15(1) of Schedule 3 to 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Code of Practice 2021

1  Subsection 1A.7(3)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

  Waiver

 (3) Paragraph 1(a) does not apply if:

 (a) the owner is party to an agreement with the carrier that includes a separate engineering assurance process for the installation of the facility; and

 (b)  the owner has agreed with the carrier to waive the requirements of paragraph (1)(a).

 (4) Paragraph 1(b) does not apply if:

 (a) the occupier is party to an agreement with the carrier that includes a separate engineering assurance process for the installation of the facility; and

 (b)  the occupier has agreed with the carrier to waive the requirements of paragraph (1)(b).

 (5) Subsection (1) does not apply if:

 (a) the owner is a party to an agreement with the occupier that allows one party, or both parties, to waive the requirements of subsection (1); and

 (b) either the owner or the occupier is a party to an agreement with the carrier that includes a separate engineering assurance process for the installation of the facility; and

 (c)  the waiving party has agreed with the carrier to waive the requirements of subsection (1).