TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND SERVICE STANDARDS) ACT 1999 - SECT 6

Standard telephone service (1) A reference in a particular provision of this Act to a standard telephone service is a reference to a carriage service for each of the following purposes:

(b) if:

(ii) another form of communication that is equivalent to voice telephony (for example, communication by means of a teletypewriter) would be required to be supplied to the end-user in order to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 ;

where:

(e) to the extent that the service is for the purpose referred to in paragraph (a)--the service has the characteristics (if any) declared by the regulations to be the designated characteristics in relation to that service for the purposes of that provision; and

(f) to the extent that the service is for the purpose referred to in paragraph (b)--the service has the characteristics (if any) declared by the regulations to be the designated characteristics in relation to that service for the purposes of that provision; and

(g) to the extent that the service is for a particular purpose referred to in paragraph (c)--the service has the characteristics (if any) declared by the regulations to be the designated characteristics in relation to that service for the purposes of that provision.

(2) A service passes the connectivity test if an end-user supplied with the service for a purpose mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c) is ordinarily able to communicate, by means of the service, with each other end-user who is supplied with the same service for the same purpose, whether or not the end-users are connected to the same telecommunications network.

(3) The following are examples of purposes that could be declared by regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c):

(b) the purpose of tone signalling.

(4) In making a recommendation to the Governor-General at a particular time about the making of regulations for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), the Minister must have regard to the following matters:

(b) such other matters (if any) as the Minister considers relevant.

(5) This section does not prevent a characteristic declared by regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (1)(e), (f) or (g) from being a performance characteristic.

(6) In this section:

this Act includes the Telecommunications Act 1997 .

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