4Application of industry standard

4 Application of industry standard

Subject to subsection (2), for the purposes of subsection 125AA(1) of the Act, this industry standard:

applies to the following sections of the telecommunications industry:

carriers; carriage service providers; electronic messaging service providers; and

gives effect to the objectives set out in section 7 of the Telecommunications (SMS Sender ID Register Industry Standard) Direction 2025.

This industry standard does not apply to a carrier, or a carriage service provider, in its capacity as a statutory infrastructure provider. An electronic messaging service provider may comply with its obligations under this industry standard by:

fulfilling the obligations itself; or arranging with another person who is a participating telecommunications provider to fulfill some or all of the obligations on its behalf under subsection 13(5).