1Telecommunications (Immediate Circle — Specified Joint Ventures and Contractors) Determination 2019

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Telecommunications (Immediate Circle — Specified Joint Ventures and Contractors) Determination 2019

I, MITCH FIFIELD, Minister for Communications and the Arts, make the following determination.

Dated 12 March 2019   

Mitch Fifield

Minister for Communications and the Arts

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

6  Immediate circle

Schedule 1—Repeals

Determination under subsection 23(2), No. 1 of 1998

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Telecommunications (Immediate Circle — Specified Joint Ventures and Contractors) Determination 2019.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 23(2) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

4  Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 7 of the Act, including the following:

(a) carriage service;

(b) content service;

(c) immediate circle.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

specified contractor means a contractor engaged under a contract to a person where the following activities are not the subject of the contract and are no more than incidental to the contract:

(a) the supply of carriage services; and

(b) the supply of a content service using a carriage service.

specified joint venture means an association of two or more persons, who agree by contract to engage in a common undertaking for profit or product by combining their respective resources, where the following activities are not the common undertaking, and are no more than incidental to the common undertaking:

(a) the supply of carriage services; and

(b) the supply of a content service using a carriage service.

5  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.