Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999 - SECT 10F

             (1)  A reference in this Part to the supply of a general digital data service includes a reference to the supply of:

                     (a)  customer equipment of a kind specified in the regulations; and

                     (b)  other goods of a kind specified in the regulations; and

                     (c)  services of a kind specified in the regulations;

where:

                     (d)  the equipment, goods or services, as the case may be, are for use in connection with the general digital data service; and

                     (e)  the supply complies with such requirements, restrictions or conditions (if any) as are specified in the regulations.

             (2)  Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (1)(e) may require that the supply of a specified kind of customer equipment is to be by way of hire. If those regulations impose such a requirement, this Part has effect, in relation to the customer equipment concerned, as if a reference to supply were a reference to supply by way of hire.

             (3)  Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (1)(e) may require that specified customer equipment is to be supplied on the basis that the customer concerned enters into a legally enforceable agreement containing such terms and conditions relating to the ownership, possession, location, disposal or use of the equipment, as are specified in, or ascertained in accordance with, the regulations.

             (4)  Subsections (2) and (3) do not, by implication, limit paragraph (1)(e).