Telecommunications (Industry Standard for Mobile Number Pre-Porting Additional Identity Verification) Direction 2019 (Cth)

Telecommunications (Industry Standard for Mobile Number Pre-Porting Additional Identity Verification) Direction 2019

I, Paul Fletcher, Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, give the following direction.

Dated 14 October 2019.

PAUL FLETCHER Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts

Part 1—Introduction

1 Name This instrument is the Telecommunications (Industry Standard for Mobile Number Pre-Porting Additional Identity Verification) Direction 2019.

2 Commencement This instrument commences on the day it is registered.

3 Authority This instrument is made under subsection 125AA(4) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

4 Definitions Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 7 of the Act, including the following: (a) carriage service provider; (b) carrier; (c) person; and (d) public mobile telecommunications service.

In this instrument: ACMA means the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997. customer means a person with a contractual relationship with a carriage service provider and to whom the carriage service provider has issued a mobile service number. digital mobile number has the same meaning as in section 15 of the Telecommunications Numbering Plan 2015. Gaining CSP means a mobile carriage service provider to which a mobile service number is to be Ported. mobile carriage service provider means a carriage service provider that supplies or arranges for the supply of a public mobile telecommunications service, and includes their authorised agents. mobile service number means a digital mobile number issued by a mobile carriage service provider to a customer in connection with the supply of a public mobile telecommunications service (other than a satellite telephone service).