Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) (Accessible Standard Telephone Services) Regulations 2023 (Cth)

Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) (Accessible Standard Telephone Services) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 9 November 2023

David Hurley Governor‑General

By His Excellency's Command

Michelle Rowland Minister for Communications

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Schedules 5 Definitions Part 2—Customer equipment 6 Specified customer equipment Schedule 1—Repeals Telecommunications (Equipment for the Disabled) Regulations 1998

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name This instrument is the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) (Accessible Standard Telephone Services) Regulations 2023.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument 1 April 2024. 1 April 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.

4 Schedules Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.