TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 No. 98 of 1991 - SECT 246 Determination of technical standards

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 No. 98 of 1991 - SECT 246

246. (1) AUSTEL may, by notice published in the Gazette, determine a technical
standard relating to customer equipment, or customer cabling, that is
connected to a telecommunications network.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), AUSTEL may only determine such a standard where
it believes it to be necessary or desirable to do so in order to:

   (a)  protect the integrity of a telecommunications network or the safety of
        persons working on, or using services supplied by means of, a
        telecommunications network; or

   (b)  ensure the interoperability of customer equipment, or
        customer cabling, with a telecommunications network to which it is
        connected; or

   (c)  ensure that customer equipment, or customer cabling, connected to a
        telecommunications network complies with recognised international
        standards concerning the interfacing of customer equipment or
        customer cabling to a telecommunications network; or

   (d)  maintain or improve the end-to-end quality of telecommunications
        services for or in relation to the supply of which customer equipment
        or customer cabling is used.

(3) A standard determined under this section may vary or revoke another
standard determined under this section.

(4) A standard determined under this section has effect on and from the day
specified in the notice published under subsection (1).

(5) A standard determined under this section is a disallowable instrument for
the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.