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TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 314C

Security capability plans

  (1)   A carrier or a nominated carriage service provider may give a Communications Security Coordinator a written instrument (a security capability plan ) under this section.

  (2)   A security capability plan may set out one or more changes to a telecommunications service or a telecommunications system the carrier or provider proposes to implement in the future that are likely to have a material adverse effect on the capacity of the carrier or provider to comply with its obligations under subsection   313(1A) or (2A).

  (3)   A security capability plan may set out the time each of the changes is proposed to be implemented.

Kinds of changes

  (4)   For the purposes of subsection   (2), a change to a telecommunications service or a telecommunications system includes (but is not limited to):

  (a)   changes referred to in subsection   314A(2); and

  (b)   changes determined in an instrument under subsection   (5) of this section.

  (5)   A Communications Security Coordinator may, by legislative instrument, determine changes for the purposes of paragraph   (4)(b).

Other matters plan may include

  (6)   A security capability plan may set out the carrier's or provider's practices, policies or strategies to comply with its obligations under subsection   313(1A) or (2A).

  (7)   A security capability plan may set out the measures the carrier or provider is implementing, or proposing to implement, to mitigate the risk of unauthorised interference with, or unauthorised access to, telecommunications networks or facilities.

One instrument each 12 - month period

  (8)   A carrier or a nominated carriage service provider cannot give more than one instrument under this section in any 12 - month period.



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