1Telecommunications (Fibre-ready Facilities — Exempt Real Estate Development Projects) Instrument 2023

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Telecommunications (Fibre-ready Facilities — Exempt Real Estate Development Projects) Instrument 2023

I, Michelle Rowland, Minister for Communications make the following instrument.

Dated 4 December 2023   

Michelle Rowland

Minister for Communications

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

6  Exempt real estate development projects

Schedule 1—Repeals

Telecommunications (Fibre-ready Facilities — Exempt Real Estate Development Projects) Instrument 2021

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Telecommunications (Fibre-ready Facilities — Exempt Real Estate Development Projects) Instrument 2023.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under paragraphs 372K(1)(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:

(a) building lot (section 7);

(b) building unit (section 7);

(c) fibre-ready facility (section 7);

(d) fixed-line facility (section 7);

(e) project area (section 7); 

(f) proximity (section 372Y);

(g) real estate development project (section 7);

(h)    service area (section 360A);

(i) statutory infrastructure provider (section 360A).

(j) telecommunications network (section 7).

 

(1)     In this instrument:

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

fixed-line SIP network means any fixed-line telecommunications network that is owned or controlled by, or operated by, or on behalf of, a relevant SIP or a related entity of a relevant SIP.

fixed-line SIP network region means a geographic region with an ascertainable boundary that has been determined by a relevant SIP within which a fixed-line telecommunications network is deployed or planned to be deployed.