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Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999
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#### 12ED Performance standards—payphones
Determination
(1) The Minister may make a written determination setting out standards to be complied with by a primary universal service provider in relation to any or all of the following matters:
(a) the characteristics of a payphone carriage service;
(b) the supply, installation or maintenance of a payphone;
(c) the supply of a payphone carriage service;
(d) the reliability of a payphone;
(e) the reliability of a payphone carriage service;
(f) the maximum period within which a primary universal service provider must rectify a fault or service difficulty relating to a payphone following the making of a report about a fault or service difficulty;
(g) the maximum period within which a primary universal service provider must rectify a fault or service difficulty relating to a payphone carriage service following the making of a report about a fault or service difficulty;
(h) the handling of requests for the removal of a payphone;
(i) any other matter concerning:
(i) the supply, installation or maintenance of a payphone; or
(ii) the supply of a payphone carriage service.
(2) A determination under subsection (1) may be of general application or may be limited as provided in the determination.
(3) Subsection (2) does not, by implication, limit subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.
Compliance
(4) A primary universal service provider must comply with a determination under subsection (1).
Determination is a legislative instrument
(6) A determination under subsection (1) is a legislative instrument.