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Telecommunications (Service Provider — Identity Checks for Prepaid Mobile Carriage Services) Amendment Determination 2025 (No. 1)

 

The Australian Communications and Media Authority makes the following determination under subsection 99(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated: 11 December 2025

Samantha Yorke

[signed]

Member

 

Cathy Rainsford

[signed]

General Manager

 

Australian Communications and Media Authority

 

 

 

 

  This is the Telecommunications (Service Provider — Identity Checks for Prepaid Mobile Carriage Services) Amendment Determination 2025 (No. 1).

  This instrument commences at the start of the day after the day it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

Note: The Federal Register of Legislation may be accessed free of charge at www.legislation.gov.au.

  This instrument is made under subsection 99(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

  The instrument that is specified in Schedule 1 to this instrument is amended as set out in the applicable items in that Schedule.

 

 

 

 

  (section 4)

1  Section 1.5

Insert:

accredited entity has the meaning affected by section 9 of the Digital ID Act.

accredited identity exchange provider has the meaning given by section 9 of the Digital ID Act.

accredited service has the meaning given by section 9 of the Digital ID Act.

Digital ID of an individual has the meaning given by section 9 of the Digital ID Act.

Note   An example of a Digital ID includes a digital driver’s licence that has been issued under a law of a State or a Territory.

Digital ID Act means the Digital ID Act 2024.

Digital ID service means an accredited service provided by an accredited entity.

identity service provider has the meaning given by section 9 of the Digital ID Act.

2  Schedule 1 (after item 8)

Insert:

9

“Government-accredited Digital ID service”

 

  1.     A carriage service provider may verify the identity of a service activator by using a Digital ID service.
  2.     The carriage service provider is only taken to have verified the identity of a service activator in accordance with subitem (1) if:
  1.     the service activator provides their consent for one of the following entities to verify, or facilitate the verification of, the service activactor’s identity:
    1.             an accredited entity; or
    2.             an identity service provider that has an arrangement to verify a person’s identity with an accredited entity, including an accredited identity exchange provider;
  2.     the service activator provides all the information necessary for an entity listed at paragraph (2)(a) to verify, or to facilitate the verification of, the identity of the service activator;
  3.     the information provided under paragraph (2)(b) is verified in accordance with the Digital ID Act; and
  4.     the description of the method of identity verification is recorded by the carriage service provider as “Government-accredited Digital ID service”.

Note  An identity service provider that is not an accredited identity service provider may use an accredited entity to verify a service activator’s identity. Item 9 enables a carriage service provider to rely on such identity service providers to facilitate the verification of a service activator’s identity, so long as the verification is undertaken in accordance with the Digital ID Act.