This instrument is the Telecommunications (Low-impact Facilities) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2025.

This instrument commences the day after this instrument is registered.

This instrument is made under subclause 6(3) of Schedule 3 to the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Low-impact Facilities) Determination 2018

1 Schedule, Part 1 – Radio facilities (table item 1)

Repeal item, substitute:

Subscriber connection deployed by radio or satellite terminal antenna or dish:

(a) not more than 1.8 metres in diameter; and

(b) either:

(i) colour‑matched to its background; or

(ii) in a colour agreed in writing between the carrier and the relevant local government authority

Residential

Commercial

2 Schedule, Part 1 – Radio facilities (table item 2, column 2, paragraph (a))

Omit “1.8”, substitute “2.4”.

3 Schedule, Part 1 – Radio facilities (table item 3, column 2, subparagraph (b)(ii))

Omit “relevant local authority”, substitute “relevant local government authority”.

4 Schedule, Part 1 – Radio facilities (table item 4, column 2, subparagraph (c)(ii))

Omit “relevant local authority”, substitute “relevant local government authority”.

5 Schedule, Part 1 – Radio facilities (table item 5, column 2, paragraph (a))

Omit “4.5”, substitute “6”.

6 Schedule, Part 1 – Radio facilities (table item 6, column 3)

Omit “Industrial” and “Rural”.

7 Schedule, Part 1 – Radio facilities (table item 7)

Repeal item, substitute:

Radiocommunications dish:

(a) not more than 2.4 metres in diameter; and

(b) either:

(i) colour‑matched to its background; or

(ii) in a colour agreed in writing between the carrier and the relevant local government authority; and

Industrial

Radiocommunications dish:

(a) not more than 3.8 metres in diameter; and

(b) either:

(i) colour‑matched to its background; or

(ii) in a colour agreed in writing between the carrier and the relevant local government authority; and

Rural

8 Schedule, Part 1 – Radio facilities (table item 8)

Repeal item, substitute:

Radiocommunications facility:

(a) with one or more separate antennae and each antenna is not more than 1.2 metres long; and

(b) if deployed with a cabinet, the cabinet does not exceed 1 cubic metre in volume

Residential

Commercial

Industrial

Rural

9 Schedule, Part 3 – Above ground housing (heading)

After “housing”, insert “and facilities”.

10 Schedule, Part 3 – Above ground housing (table item 4)

Repeal item, substitute:

Equipment shelter:

(a) not more than 2.5 metres high; and

(b) with a base area of not more than 5 square metres; and

(i) colour‑matched to its background; or

(ii) in a colour agreed in writing between the carrier and the relevant local government authority

Residential

Commercial

Equipment shelter:

(a) not more than 5 metres high; and

(b) with a base area of not more than 52 square metres; and

(i) colour‑matched to its background; or

(ii) in a colour agreed in writing between the carrier and the relevant local government authority

Industrial

Rural

11 Schedule, Part 3 – Above ground housing (table item 5)

Repeal item, substitute:

Equipment shelter:

(a) used solely to house equipment used to assist in providing a service by means of a facility mentioned in Part 1; and

(b) not more than 3 metres high; and

(d) either:

(i) colour‑matched to its background; or

(ii) in a colour agreed in writing between the carrier and the relevant local government authority

Residential

Commercial

Industrial

Rural

12 Schedule, Part 3 – Above ground housing (table item 7, column 2)

Omit “12.5”, substitute “50”.

13 Schedule, Part 3 – Above ground housing (after table item 10)

Insert:

Cabling within existing conduit deployed by a carrier that is attached to, on, within, or under, a bridge

Residential

Commercial

Industrial

Rural

Cabling or conduit within existing ducts of a bridge

Residential

Commercial

Industrial

Rural

14 Schedule, Part 8 – Co-located facilities (table item 2)

Repeal item, substitute:

Facility mentioned in:

(a) Part 1, 6 or 7; or

(b) item 3 of Part 4;

installed on or within:

(d) a public utility structure;

where:

(e) the total co‑location volume of the co‑located facilities is no more than 50 per cent greater than the volume of the original facility or the original infrastructure; and

(f) the levels of noise that are likely to result from the operation of the co‑located facilities are less than or equal to the levels of noise that resulted from the operation of the original facility or the public utility structure

Residential

Commercial

15 Schedule, Part 8 – Co-located facilities (table item 3)

Repeal item.