Section Part 1 - Telecommunications (Requirements for Customer Equipment for Use with the Standard Telephone Service — Features Designed for People with Disability — AS/ACIF S040) Standard 2025 - Preliminary

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1 Name

This standard is the Telecommunications (Requirements for Customer Equipment for Use with the Standard Telephone Service — Features Designed for People with Disability — AS/ACIF S040) Standard 2025.
This standard may also be cited as AS/ACIF S040-2025.

2 Commencement

This standard commences on 30 March 2025.

Note: This standard is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation which may be accessed free of charge at www.legislation.gov.au.

3 Authority

This standard is made under subsection 380(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

4 Repeal of the Telecommunications Disability Standard (Requirements for Customer Equipment for use with the Standard Telephone Service — Features for special needs of persons with disabilities — AS/ACIF S040) 2015

The Telecommunications Disability Standard (Requirements for Customer Equipment for use with the Standard Telephone Service — Features for special needs of persons with disabilities — AS/ACIF S040) 2015 (F2015L00191) is repealed.

5 Object

The object of this standard is to provide for requirements relating to specified customer equipment that:

(a) is for use in connection with the standard telephone service; and

(b) is for use primarily by people without disability; and

6 Definitions

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.