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Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for customer cabling products – AS/CA S008) 2015
Telecommunications Act 1997

The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY makes this Technical Standard under subsection 376(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Dated             17th February 2015

Chris Chapman
[signed]
Member

Richard Bean
[signed]
Member /
General Manager

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Part 1 – Preliminary

      1 Name of Technical Standard
          (1) This Technical Standard is the Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for customer cabling products – AS/CA S008) 2015.
          (2) This Technical Standard may also be cited as AS/CA S008-2015.

      2 Commencement

  This Technical Standard commences on the day after it is registered.

          Note    All legislative instruments must be registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments required to be maintained under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

3 Revocation

  The Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for Customer Cabling Products – AS/CA S008:2010) 2011 [F2011L00673] is revoked.

4 Objects of Technical Standard

  The objects of this Technical Standard are to specify requirements that are necessary or convenient for:

      (a) protecting the integrity of a telecommunications network or a facility;

      (b) protecting the health or safety of persons who:
       (i) operate;
       (ii) work on;
       (iii) use services supplied by means of; or
              (iv) are otherwise reasonably likely to be affected by the operation of;
           a telecommunications network or a facility;

          (c) ensuring that customer equipment can be used to give access to an emergency call service; and

          (d) ensuring, for the purposes of the supply of a standard telephone service, the interoperability of customer equipment with a telecommunications network to which the equipment is, or is proposed to be, connected.
Part 2 – Interpretation

5 Definitions

 In this Technical Standard:

ACMA transition period has the meaning given by section 6.

Act means the Telecommunications Act 1997.

      amendment instrument means an instrument that amends the AS/CA Standard.
AS/CA Standard means the Australian Standard AS/CA S008:2010 – Requirements for customer cabling products published by Communications Alliance Ltd in October 2010.

Note    The AS/CA Standard is available on Communications Alliance Ltd's website at http://www.commsalliance.com.au.

AS/CA transition period, for an amendment or the replacement of the AS/CA Standard, has the meaning given by section 7.
      customer cabling product means a passive device (including any cable or connecting hardware) which is used or intended for use on the customer side of the boundary of a telecommunications network, but does not include:
        (a)   a cabling product intended primarily for the distribution of AC mains supply;
        (b)   a product intended to be used for telecommunications earthing systems or telecommunications power distribution; or
        (c)   a surge suppression device.

      included in a class of items has the meaning given by section 8.

      item means a thing that is customer equipment or