Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 No. 98 of 1991 - SECT 305

305. (1) The number of minutes of timed traffic of a carrier for a financial
year is the total (expressed in minutes) of the respective durations of all
timed connections established during that financial year across
telecommunications networks in Australia operated by the carrier.

(2) A timed connection is a connection (other than a prescribed connection)
some or all of whose duration is measured by equipment forming part of a
telecommunications network across which the connection is established.

(3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (4), if only part of the duration
of a connection is measured as mentioned in subsection (2), so much of that
duration as is not so measured must be disregarded.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (1), the duration of a timed connection
must be measured, as mentioned in subsection (2), at a single point in the
telecommunications network, or in one of the telecommunications networks,
across which the connection is established.

(5) The regulations may provide that, for the purposes of subsection (1), so
much of the duration of a timed connection as is prescribed must be
disregarded.