Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 No. 47 of 1997 - SECT 28

(1) If a designated radiocommunications facility is used, or is for use, to
supply a carriage service between a point in Australia and one or more other
points in Australia, the facility is a network unit.

(2) It does not matter whether the supply involves:

   (a)  the use of a satellite; or

   (b)  the use of a line or other facility outside Australia.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a point includes a mobile or potentially
mobile point, whether on land, underground, in the atmosphere, in outer space,
underwater, at sea or anywhere else.

(4) For the purposes of this section, a point that is:

   (a)  in the atmosphere; and

   (b)  in or below the stratosphere; and

   (c)  above Australia; is taken to be a point in Australia.

(5) For the purposes of this section, a point that is:

   (a)  on a satellite; and

   (b)  above the stratosphere; is taken to be a point outside Australia.