Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts
Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997
1 Section 5 (definition of allocation )
Repeal the definition, substitute:
"allocation" , in relation to a number, means the allocation of the number in accordance with:
(a) an allocation system; or
(b) the rules and processes published by the numbering scheme manager; or
(c) if there is no numbering scheme manager--the numbering plan made by the ACMA.
2 Section 5
Insert:
"numbering scheme manager" has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 1997 .
"ported" , in relation to a number issued to a customer for a carriage service, means that the carriage service provider or the carrier network involved in providing the service, or both, is changed while the customer continues to receive the carriage service using the number.
3 Section 5 (definition of surrendered )
Repeal the definition, substitute:
"surrendered" , in relation to a number, means surrendered in accordance with:
(a) the rules and processes published by the numbering scheme manager; or
(b) if there is no numbering scheme manager--the numbering plan made by the ACMA.
4 Section 5 (definition of transferred )
Omit "meaning", substitute "meanings".
5 Section 5 (definition of withdrawn )
Repeal the definition, substitute:
"withdrawn" , in relation to a number, means withdrawn in accordance with:
(a) the rules and processes published by the numbering scheme manager; or
(b) if there is no numbering scheme manager--the numbering plan made by the ACMA.
6 Before subsection 5A(1)
Insert:
(1A) A number is transferred if it is transferred in accordance with:
(a) the rules and processes published by the numbering scheme manager; or
(b) if there is no numbering scheme manager--the numbering plan made by the ACMA.
7 Subsection 5A(2)
After "notice of the transfer", insert ", and also give the notice to the numbering scheme manager if there is one".
8 Subsection 17(2)
Omit "in accordance with the numbering plan".