Digital Data Service Areas Determination 1999 (No. 1)

1 Digital Data Service Areas Determination 1999 (No. 1)

Commonwealth of Australia

Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

Digital Data Service Areas Determination 1999 (No. 1)

I, Richard Kenneth Robert Alston, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, make the following Determination under subsections 19B(1) and 19C(1) of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.

Dated 14 October 1999.

RICHARD ALSTON

Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

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Citation

1. This Determination may be cited as the Digital Data Service Areas Determination 1999 (No. 1).

Commencement

2. This Determination commences on gazettal.

Interpretation

3. In this Determination:

ACA has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Act means the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.

General digital data service areas

4. Subject to section 5, a service area is a general digital data service area for the purposes of the Act if:

(a) it comprises an area within a radial distance of 4 kilometres from a telephone exchange specified in Column 1 of Table A in the Schedule, being an exchange of a class specified in Column 2 of Table A in the Schedule and located in a State or Territory specified in Column 3 of Table A in the Schedule; or

(b) it comprises an area within a radial distance of 6 kilometres from a telephone exchange specified in Column 1 of Table B in the Schedule, being an exchange of a class specified in Column 2 of Table B in the Schedule and located in a State or Territory specified in Column 3 of Table B in the Schedule.

General digital data service areas––exceptions

5. A service area referred to in section 4 is not a general digital data service area for the purposes of the Act if, and only if:

(a) the connection used to supply a general digital data service to a location in the area incorporates:

(i) subscriber line conditioning equipment; or

(ii) a pair gain system; or

(b) the ACA has certified, by written instrument, that the area is not a general digital data service area for the purposes of the Act.