Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 404

  (1)   The ACMA may, by legislative instrument, make rules ( connection rules ) that:

  (a)   are expressed to apply to specified persons; and

  (b)   relate to any or all of the following:

  (i)   the connection of specified customer equipment to a telecommunications network or to a facility;

  (ii)   maintaining a connection referred to in subparagraph   (i);

  (iii)   the connection of specified customer cabling to a telecommunications network or to a facility;

  (iv)   maintaining a connection referred to in subparagraph   (iii).

Note 1:   A person may be specified by name, by inclusion in a specified class or in any other way.

Note 2:   Equipment or cabling may be specified by name, by inclusion in a specified class or in any other way.

  (2)   A person specified under paragraph   (1)(a) is said to be subject to the connection rules .

  (3)   The connection rules may make provision for or in relation to a particular matter by empowering the ACMA to make decisions of an administrative character.