Telecommunications (Types of Cabling Work) Amendment Declaration 2010 (No. 1)1
Telecommunications Act 1997
The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY makes this Declaration under subsection 419(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.
Dated      19th November 2010
Chris Chapman
[signed]
Member
Richard Bean
[signed]
Member
1              Name of Declaration
                This Declaration is the Telecommunications (Types of Cabling Work) Amendment Declaration 2010 (No. 1).
2              Commencement
                This Declaration commences on the later of:
(a)    the date it is registered; and
(b)   the date of its gazettal. 
3              Amendment of Telecommunications (Types of Cabling Work) Declaration 1997
                Schedule 1 amends the Telecommunications (Types of Cabling Work) Declaration 1997.
Schedule 1        Amendments
(section 3)
[1]           Subsection 3(1)
insert
ACA TS 024 – 1997 means the Telecommunications Technical Standard (Broadcaster Interface Standard – ACA TS 024 – 1997) made by the Australian Communications Authority on 10 December 1997.
Industry Guideline G642:2010 means Industry Guideline G642:2010 Installation of Broadcast Cabling and connection of Digital Broadcast Equipment to a Telecommunications Network issued by Communications Alliance Ltd in June 2010.
manager of a telecommunications network has the meaning given in section 375 of the Act.
telecommunications network has the meaning given in section 374 of the Act.
 
[2]           After subsection 3(1)
Insert
Note  A number of terms used in this Declaration are defined in the Act including:
·               connected;
·               customer cabling; and
·               customer equipment.
[3]           Subsection 3(2)
substitute
In this Declaration, a reference to an Australian Standard or an Industry Guideline is a reference to the standard or guideline, as the case may be, as in force from time to time.
[4]           Schedule 1, paragraph 1(c)
substitute
(c)           either:
(i)                  is connected, or is to be connected, to a telecommunications network:
(A)                  by customer equipment which meets the requirements of ACA TS 024 – 1997; or
(B)                in accordance with the written consent of the manager of the network; or
(ii)                is, or is to be, installed and connected to a telecommunications network:
(A)                in accordance with the requirements of Industry Guideline G642: 2010; or
(B)                in accordance with written consent of the kind described in clause 3.1.1 of Industry Guideline G642:2010.
Note  ACA TS 024 – 1997 contains requirements relating to the connection of certain analogue equipment.  Industry Guideline G642: 2010 contains requirements relating to the installation and connection of digital equipment and cabling.
 
[5]           Schedule 1, item 4
substitute
4.  Cabling work that involves the connection of associated customer equipment by end-users if the associated customer equipment bears a compliance label in accordance with a notice made under Division 7 of Part 21 of the Act.
 
Note
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