Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of this Part, if:
(a) immediately before 1 July 1991, Telecom supplied, or offered to supply, to persons within a particular area within Australia, a carriage service that was, immediately before that date, a standard telephone service (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1991 ); and
(b) under the terms and conditions on which Telecom supplied, or would supply, that service to persons in that area, the charges for calls of a particular kind between points within that area made using the service were, or would be, worked out on an untimed basis;
that area is a standard zone .
Note: Untimed basis is defined by subsection (2).
(2) For the purposes of this section, charges for calls of a particular kind are worked out on an untimed basis if, and only if, the charges for the calls of that kind are worked out by reference to the number of such calls made during a particular period, regardless of how long each call lasted.
(3) In this section:
"Telecom" means the Australian Telecommunications Corporation, as it existed immediately before 1 July 1991.