6Application of the industry standard

6 Application of the industry standard

(1) Subject to this section, the standard is to apply to the following sections of the telecommunications industry:

(a) carriage service providers;

(b) carriers;

(c) if the ACMA considers it necessary to apply the standard to electronic messaging service providers, those providers.

Note: Carriage service provider is defined in sections 7 and 87 of the Act, and includes carriage service providers who are intermediaries.

(2) The standard may deal with matters differently for different sections of the telecommunications industry.

(3) The standard may deal with matters differently for different classes of carriers, carriage service providers and electronic messaging service providers.

(4) The standard may exempt certain classes of carriers, carriage service providers and electronic messaging service providers from particular provisions of the standard.

(5) The standard may provide for different requirements for carriers, carriage service providers and electronic messaging service providers in relation to different types of:

(a) end users; and

(b) short message services (SMS), multimedia message services (MMS) and services specified (if any) under section 484C of the Act; and

(c) entities.