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Telecommunications (Requirements for Customer Equipment for Use with the Standard Telephone Service — Features Designed for People with Disability — AS/ACIF S040) Standard 2025
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Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument have the same meaning as in the Act, including:
ACMA (see section 7)
customer equipment (see sections 7 and 21)
disability (see section 380)
standard telephone service (see section 7).
In this instrument:
Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.
AS/ACIF Standard means the Australian Standard AS/ACIF S040:2001 – Requirements for Customer Equipment for use with the Standard Telephone Service - Features for special needs of persons with disabilities published by the Australian Communications Industry Forum Ltd (now known as Communications Alliance Ltd) in March 2002, as existing at the time this standard commences.
Note 1: The AS/ACIF Standard is available, free of charge, on Communications Alliance Ltd’s website at www.commsalliance.com.au.
Note 2: See subsection 381(1) of the Act for the adoption of Australian Standards.