Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00440:clause:1_15
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00440
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 15
Character Range: 45466–47125

15  Places and areas at which payphones must be located
       (1)   A primary universal service provider must ensure that:
         (a)    a payphone is located, and continues to be located, at the following places and areas:
         (i) at each site at which a payphone supplied by a primary universal service provider was located immediately prior to the date of commencement of this instrument;
         (ii) at a site within each new payphone location;
         (iii)if a payphone is relocated from an existing payphone site that is at a place or area of a type described in Division 1 of Schedule 1 to a new payphone site at the same place or area, at the new payphone site; and
         (b)    a TTY payphone is located, and continues to be located, at a place or area that is a TTY payphone location.
       (2)   The requirement at subsection (1) is subject to:
         (a)    the rules set out at section 20 regarding the installation of payphones;
         (b)    the rules set out at section 21 regarding the circumstances in which a payphone may be removed from a payphone site; and
         (c)    the substitution of a payphone supplied by the primary universal service provider with a payphone supplied by the Commonwealth.
       (3)   To avoid doubt, the obligation to ensure that a payphone is located at a site or payphone location in accordance with subsection (1) applies to the primary universal service provider even if the primary universal service provider enters into an arrangement with another provider for the supply, management, operation or maintenance of a payphone by that other provider at the site or payphone location.