Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 No. 47 of 1997 - SECT 21

(1) For the purposes of this Act, customer equipment means:

   (a)  any equipment, apparatus, tower, mast, antenna or other structure or
        thing; or

   (b)  any system (whether software-based or otherwise); that:

   (c)  is used, installed ready for use or intended for use in connection
        with a carriage service; and

   (d)  under the regulations, is treated as customer equipment; but does not
        include a line.

(2) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) may deal with a matter
by reference to the boundary of a telecommunications network. Note: Boundary
of a telecommunications network is defined by section  22. 

(3) Subsection (2) does not, by implication, limit subsection (1).

(4) If no regulations are in force for the purposes of subsection (1), then,
for the purposes of this Act, customer equipment means:

   (a)  any equipment, apparatus, tower, mast, antenna or other structure or
        thing that is used, installed ready for use or intended for use on the
        customer side of the boundary of a telecommunications network; or

   (b)  any system (whether software-based or otherwise) that is used,
        installed ready for use or intended for use on the customer side of
        the boundary of a telecommunications network; but does not include:

   (c)  a line; or

   (d)  equipment of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of
        this paragraph; or

   (e)  an apparatus, tower, mast, antenna or other structure or thing that is
        of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this
        paragraph; or

   (f)  a system (whether software-based or otherwise) that is of a kind
        specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph.
        Note: Boundary of a telecommunications network is defined by section 
        22.