Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The ACMA may, by written instrument, make a technical standard relating to specified customer equipment or specified customer cabling.
(2) Standards under this section are to consist only of such requirements as are necessary or convenient for:
(a) protecting the integrity of a telecommunications network or a facility; or
(b) protecting the health or safety of persons who:
(i) operate; or
(ii) work on; or
(iii) use services supplied by means of; or
(iv) are otherwise reasonably likely to be affected by the operation of;
a telecommunications network or a facility; or
(c) ensuring that customer equipment can be used to give access to an emergency call service; or
(d) ensuring, for the purpose of the supply of a standard telephone service, the interoperability of customer equipment with a telecommunications network to which the equipment is, or is proposed to be, connected; or
(e) achieving an objective specified in the regulations.
(3) Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (2)(e) must not specify an objective if the achievement of the objective is likely to have the effect (whether direct or indirect) of requiring a telecommunications network or a facility to:
(a) have particular design features; or
(b) meet particular performance requirements.
(4) A standard under this section may be of general application or may be limited as provided in the standard. This subsection does not, by implication, limit subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .
(5) A standard under this section takes effect:
(a) if the instrument making the standard specifies a day for the purpose--on that day; or
(b) otherwise--on the day on which the standard was notified in the Gazette .
(6) A standard under this section is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .
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