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Telecommunications Amendment (Local Access Lines—Class Exemptions) Regulations 2022

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 03 March 2022

David Hurley

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Paul Fletcher

Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Telecommunications Regulations 2021

1  Name

  This instrument is the Telecommunications Amendment (Local Access Lines—Class Exemptions) Regulations 2022.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

5 March 2022

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Telecommunications Act 1997.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Telecommunications Regulations 2021

1  After Part 3

Insert:

Part 3ALocal access lines

 

13A  Supply of eligible services to be on wholesale basis—class exemptions

  For the purposes of the following provisions of the Act, the higher number of 12,000 is specified:

 (a) subparagraph 143A(1)(d)(ii);

 (b) subparagraph 143A(1)(e)(ii);

 (c) subparagraph 143A(2)(d)(ii);

 (d) subparagraph 143A(2)(e)(ii).