Telecommunications (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1997 (59 of 1997)

Part 3   Transitional

Division 20   Transitional provisions relating to technical standards about customer equipment and customer cabling

83   Technical standards about customer equipment and customer cabling

 

(1) This section applies to a technical standard in force under section 246 of the Telecommunications Act 1991 immediately before 1 July 1997.

      

(2) The Telecommunications Act 1997 has effect, until the termination time for the standard, as if:

(a) the standard had been determined by the ACA under section 376 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 at the beginning of 1 July 1997; and

(b) the standard had taken effect at the beginning of 1 July 1997; and

(c) a reference in the standard to customer equipment (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1991) were a reference to customer equipment (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1997); and

(d) a reference in the standard to customer cabling (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1991) were a reference to customer cabling (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1997); and

(e) the ACA had complied with the requirements of section 378 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 in relation to the making of the standard; and

(f) subsections 376(2) and (3) of the Telecommunications Act 1997 were not applicable to the standard.

      

(3) This section does not prevent the variation or revocation of a standard in accordance with subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

      

(4) In this section:

termination time , in relation to a standard, means the earlier of:

(a) the time when another standard that:

(i) is made under section 376 of the Telecommunications Act 1997; and

(ii) contains a declaration that it replaces the first-mentioned standard;

takes effect; or

(b) the beginning of 1 January 1998.