Customer equipment
21 Customer equipment
For the purposes of this Act, customer equipment means:
any equipment, apparatus, tower, mast, antenna or other structure or thing; or
any system (whether software‑based or otherwise);
that:
is used, installed ready for use or intended for use in connection with a carriage service; and
under the regulations, is treated as customer equipment;
but does not include a line.
Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) may deal with a matter by reference to the boundary of a telecommunications network.
Boundary of a telecommunications network is defined by section 22.
Subsection (2) does not, by implication, limit subsection (1).
If no regulations are in force for the purposes of subsection (1), then, for the purposes of this Act, customer equipment means:
any equipment, apparatus, tower, mast, antenna or other structure or thing that is used, installed ready for use or intended for use on the customer side of the boundary of a telecommunications network; or
any system (whether software‑based or otherwise) that is used, installed ready for use or intended for use on the customer side of the boundary of a telecommunications network;
but does not include:
a line; or
equipment of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or
an apparatus, tower, mast, antenna or other structure or thing that is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or
a system (whether software‑based or otherwise) that is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph.
Note : Boundary of a telecommunications network is defined by section 22.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
, specified in regulations
). Made under this Act:
- Submarine Cable (Perth Protection Zone) Declaration 2007 · Legislative Instrument · under cl 4(1) of sch 3A
- Telecommunications (Analogue Interworking and Non-interference Requirements for Customer Equipment for Connection to a Switched Telephone Network – AS/CA S002) Technical Standard 2025 · Legislative Instrument · under s 376(1)
- Telecommunications (Approving Body) Determination 2017 · Legislative Instrument · under s 410(1)
21 more instruments made under this Act are listed on the Act’s overview.
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