Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The ACMA is not required to comply with subsection 378(1) in relation to the making of a particular technical standard if the ACMA is satisfied that it is necessary to make the standard as a matter of urgency in order to:
(a) protect the integrity of a telecommunications network or of a facility; or
(b) protect the health or safety of persons who:
(i) operate; or
(ii) work on; or
(iii) use services supplied by means of; or
(iv) are otherwise reasonably likely to be affected by the operation of;
a telecommunications network or a facility.
(2) If subsection (1) applies to a standard (the urgent standard ), the urgent standard ceases to have effect 12 months after it came into operation. However, this rule does not prevent the ACMA from revoking the urgent standard and making another standard under section 376 that:
(a) is not a standard to which subsection (1) applies; and
(b) deals with the same subject matter as the urgent standard.