{"id":"F2005B00463","name":"Telecommunications Technical Standard (Mobile Station for AMPS Analogue Cellular Mobile Telecommunications System - ACA TS 005 - 1997)","slug":"telecommunications-technical-standard-mobile-station-for-amps-analogue-cellular-mobile-telecommunica","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":31878,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2005B00463-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Title","sectionType":"part","heading":"Title","content":"# Title\n\n1. This Technical Standard may be cited as ACA TS 005 – 19971.\n\n\\[NOTE: This Standard takes effect on gazettal: see Telecommunications Act 1997 s. 376 (5).\\]","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"Definitions","sectionType":"part","heading":"Definitions","content":"# Definitions\n\n2. In this Standard:\n\n“ACA” means the Australian Communications Authority;\n\n“AMPS” means the analogue cellular mobile telecommunications system known as ‘advanced mobile phone system’;\n\n“customer equipment” has the meaning it has in the Act;\n\n“the Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1997.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"Standard for customer equipment transmit","sectionType":"part","heading":"Standard for customer equipment transmitting in the voice frequency range for connection to the PSTN or ISDN","content":"# Standard for customer equipment transmitting in the voice frequency range for connection to the PSTN or ISDN\n\n3. For paragraphs 376 (2) (a), (b), (c) and (d) of the Act, the standard for customer equipment for connection to an AMPS telecommunications network is the standard set out in the document known as “ACA TS 005 – 1997” approved by the ACA on 10 December 1997.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"NOTE","sectionType":"part","heading":"NOTE","content":"## NOTE\n\n1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1997.","sortOrder":3}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1853},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument maintains its original narrow focus. As a specific 1997 technical standard for AMPS equipment, it has not expanded beyond its initial purpose of adopting the external technical specification ACA TS 005 – 1997."},"complexity_factors":["Incorporation by reference of external technical specifications (the actual engineering requirements are contained in a separate document not reproduced in this legislative text)","Only 4 defined terms and 1 operative clause","No conditional logic, exceptions, or substantive regulatory provisions beyond the mechanism of incorporation"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument enforced the technical requirements in ACA TS 005 – 1997 for mobile handsets connecting to Australia’s AMPS analogue cellular network, so only equipment meeting specified electrical, RF and compatibility standards could access the public network. It primarily affected handset manufacturers, suppliers and the ACA’s approval process, and mattered for preventing interference and protecting emergency and public communications. The standard is now of historical interest after AMPS was decommissioned."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/telecommunications-technical-standard-mobile-station-for-amps-analogue-cellular-mobile-telecommunica","history":"/api/acts/telecommunications-technical-standard-mobile-station-for-amps-analogue-cellular-mobile-telecommunica/history","analysis":"/api/acts/telecommunications-technical-standard-mobile-station-for-amps-analogue-cellular-mobile-telecommunica/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/telecommunications-technical-standard-mobile-station-for-amps-analogue-cellular-mobile-telecommunica/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/telecommunications-technical-standard-mobile-station-for-amps-analogue-cellular-mobile-telecommunica/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/telecommunications-technical-standard-mobile-station-for-amps-analogue-cellular-mobile-telecommunica/documents"}}