New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act:
"Authority" means the New South Wales Government Telecommunications Authority constituted by this Act.
"Board" means the Board of the Authority established under this Act.
"carry" includes transmit, switch and receive.
"communication" includes any communication:

(a) whether between persons and persons, things and things, or persons and things, and

(b) whether in the form of speech, music or other sounds, data, text, visual images (whether or not animated) or signals or in any other form, or in any combination of forms.

"equipment" means any apparatus or equipment used, or intended for use, in or in connection with a telecommunications network, but does not include a line.
"facility" means any tower, antenna, tunnel, pit, pole or other structure or thing used, or intended for use, in or in connection with a telecommunications network, and includes:

(a) a line, and

(b) equipment, and

(c) a radiocommunications transmitter or receiver.

"Government agency" means:

(a) a Government department or administrative office, or

(b) a statutory body representing the Crown, or

(c) an electricity county council, or

(d) any other public or local authority (including any State-owned corporation) which is declared by proclamation to be a Government agency for the purposes of this Act.

"Government telecommunications network" means the telecommunications network whose infrastructure is vested in the Authority under this Act.
"infrastructure" of a telecommunications network means lines, equipment or other facilities used, or intended for use, in or in connection with that network.
"line" means any wire, cable, optical fibre, tube, conduit, waveguide or other physical medium used, or intended for use, as a continuous artificial guide for or in connection with carrying communications by means of guided electromagnetic energy.
"Managing Director" means the Managing Director of the Authority.
"radiocommunications" means radiocommunications within the meaning of the Radiocommunications Act 1983 of the Commonwealth.
"telecommunications network" means a system, or series of systems, for carrying communications by means of guided or unguided electromagnetic energy or both, and includes any part of such a system for carrying communications by means of radiocommunications.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, equipment, or a line or other facility, is connected to a telecommunications network if it (either by itself or in conjunction with any other thing) is being used, or is in place for use, to carry communications by means of the network, whether or not it is comprised in (or is in physical contact with any part of) the network.

(3) In this Act, a reference to the Government of the State includes a reference to any Government agency.

(4) In this Act:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.

(5) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.