Disability standards
380 Disability standards
The ACMA may, by legislative instrument, make a standard relating to specified customer equipment if:
the customer equipment is for use in connection with the standard telephone service; and
the customer equipment is for use primarily by persons who do not have a disability; and
the standard relates to the features of the equipment that are designed to cater for any or all of the special needs of persons with disabilities.
The following are examples of features mentioned in paragraph (1)(c):
an induction loop that is designed to assist in the operation of a hearing aid;
a raised dot on the button labelled “5” on a telephone.
A standard under this section may be of general application or may be limited as provided in the standard. This subsection does not, by implication, limit subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.
In this section:
disability has the same meaning as in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.
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