Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 28

  (1)   If a designated radiocommunications facility is used, or is for use, to supply a carriage service between a point in Australia and one or more other points in Australia, the facility is a network unit .

  (2)   It does not matter whether the supply involves:

  (a)   the use of a satellite; or

  (b)   the use of a line or other facility outside Australia.

  (3)   For the purposes of this section, a point includes a mobile or potentially mobile point, whether on land, underground, in the atmosphere, in outer space, underwater, at sea or anywhere else.

  (4)   For the purposes of this section, a point that is:

  (a)   in the atmosphere; and

  (b)   in or below the stratosphere; and

  (c)   above Australia;

is taken to be a point in Australia.

  (5)   For the purposes of this section, a point that is:

  (a)   on a satellite; and

  (b)   above the stratosphere;

is taken to be a point outside Australia.