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9  Payphone performance standard – supply, installation or maintenance of a payphone
       (1) The standards set out at subsection (2) apply in relation to the supply, installation or maintenance of a payphone.
       (2) A payphone must:
         (a)    provide operating instructions, with the option of selecting text in
       languages other than English;
         (b)    be able to be modified to include a teletypewriter attachment; and
         (c)    meet:
         (i) the guidelines set out in the Accessibility of Payphones Industry Guideline G630:2020 prepared by the Communications Alliance Ltd; or
         (ii) if replacement guidelines regarding the accessibility of payphones are published by the Communications Alliance Ltd, or a successor representative body, those guidelines as existing from time to time.
Note:  In relation to subparagraph (2)(c), see subsection 589(2) of the Telecommunications Act 1997.
       (3)  For the purposes of the standard at paragraph (2)(a), a primary universal service provider must ensure that a payphone provides operating instructions in at least three languages, which must include any three of the following:
         (a)    Mandarin;
         (b)    French;
         (c)    Spanish;
         (d)    Japanese;
       unless the primary universal service provider is satisfied, having regard to the needs of the community, that it would be more appropriate to select one or more other languages.