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This is the Telecommunications (Section of the Telecommunications Industry – Public Number Directory Publishers) Determination 2017.
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This Determination names and defines the section of the telecommunications industry called “public number directory publishers”: entities that publish and maintain public number directories. It repeals the 2007 Determination and relies on definitions in the Telecommunications Integrated Public Number Database Scheme 2017, but does not itself create operational obligations or fees. It matters because it identifies which businesses fall into a regulatory category; any duties or costs arise from the linked schemes rather than from this instrument alone (secs 4–8, 5).
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This is the Telecommunications (Section of the Telecommunications Industry – Public Number Directory Publishers) Determination 2017.
This Determination commences at the start of the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.
Note: The Federal Register of Legislation may be accessed at www.legislation.gov.au.
This Determination is made under subsection 110(3) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.
The Telecommunications (Section of the Telecommunications Industry) Determination 2007 (F2007L01242) is repealed.
In this Determination:
public number directory has the meaning given by subsection 285(2) of the Telecommunications Act 1997, as in force from time to time.
public number directory publisher has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Integrated Public Number Database Scheme 2017, as in force from time to time.
Note 1: Section 14 of the Legislation Act 2003 allows legislative instruments to make provision in relation to matters by incorporating Acts and disallowable legislative instruments, either as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time.
Note 2: All Commonwealth Acts and legislative instruments are registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.
This Determination applies to public number directory publishers.
For the purposes of this Determination, the specified telecommunications activity is the publication and maintenance of a public number directory.
Persons to whom this Determination applies who carry on, or propose to carry on, the telecommunications activity mentioned in section 7 are determined to constitute the section of the telecommunications industry to be identified as “public number directory publishers”.
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This is the Telecommunications (Section of the Telecommunications Industry – Public Number Directory Publishers) Determination 2017.
This Determination commences at the start of the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.
Note: The Federal Register of Legislation may be accessed at www.legislation.gov.au.
This Determination is made under subsection 110(3) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.
The Telecommunications (Section of the Telecommunications Industry) Determination 2007 (F2007L01242) is repealed.
In this Determination:
public number directory has the meaning given by subsection 285(2) of the Telecommunications Act 1997, as in force from time to time.
public number directory publisher has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Integrated Public Number Database Scheme 2017, as in force from time to time.
Note 1: Section 14 of the Legislation Act 2003 allows legislative instruments to make provision in relation to matters by incorporating Acts and disallowable legislative instruments, either as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time.
Note 2: All Commonwealth Acts and legislative instruments are registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.
This Determination applies to public number directory publishers.
For the purposes of this Determination, the specified telecommunications activity is the publication and maintenance of a public number directory.
Persons to whom this Determination applies who carry on, or propose to carry on, the telecommunications activity mentioned in section 7 are determined to constitute the section of the telecommunications industry to be identified as “public number directory publishers”.