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4 Application

For the purposes of subsection 125AA(1) of the Act: (a) this industry standard applies to; (i) the section of the telecommunications industry consisting of mobile carriage service providers who supply or arrange for the supply of public mobile telecommunications services; and (ii) every port of a mobile service number; and (b) the content of this industry standard deals with placing additional identity verification requirements on mobile carriage service providers to meet the objectives described in section 5. Note 1: The pre-porting identity verification obligations in this industry standard are in addition to customer authorisation requirements in the Industry Code - Mobile Number Portability Code – C570:2009 and in the Customer Authorisation Industry Guideline (G651:2017).

Note 2: Section 116A of the Act provides that neither an industry code nor an industry standard derogates from a requirement made by or under the Privacy Act 1988.