Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1991 No. 425 TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 3

  3.1   Add at the end:
Sale of customer equipment for which there is no permit

"7. (1) A notice to be given under section 255 of the Act by a person selling
or supplying, or offering to sell or supply, customer equipment that the
person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is customer equipment the
connection of which to a telecommunications network would be contrary to
subsection 253 (1) of the Act must be in writing and must state:

   (a)  that there is no permit issued by AUSTEL in force for connection of
        the customer equipment to a telecommunications network; and

   (b)  that, if equipment is connected to a telecommunications network, the
        equipment may become dangerous or may damage the network; and

   (c)  the penalty for knowingly or recklessly connecting the customer
        equipment to a telecommunications network. (NOTE: The notice should be
        substantially in the following form: This customer equipment has no
        AUSTEL permit. and may be dangerous or damage a telecommunications
        network. Connection to a telecommunications network is an offence
        under section 253 of the Telecommunications Act 1991 and may attract a
        maximum fine of $12,000.'.)

"(2) A notice under subregulation (1) must be:

   (a)  in not less than 10 point typeface; and

   (b)  conspicuously, permanently and legibly cast or etched into or fixed by
        means of a plate or label to the customer equipment; and

   (c)  conspicuously, permanently and legibly etched into, printed on or
        fixed by means of a plate or label to any packaging in which the goods
        are offered for sale or supply.

"(3) A plate or label referred to in paragraph (2) (c) must not be capable of
being removed from the packaging to which it is fixed without defacing that
packaging.