Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00742:section:21
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00742
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 21
Character Range: 63183–64912

21  Customer equipment
 (1) For the purposes of this Act, customer equipment means:
 (a) any equipment, apparatus, tower, mast, antenna or other structure or thing; or
 (b) any system (whether software‑based or otherwise);
that:
 (c) is used, installed ready for use or intended for use in connection with a carriage service; and
 (d) under the regulations, is treated as customer equipment;
but does not include a line.
 (2) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1) may deal with a matter by reference to the boundary of a telecommunications network.
Note: Boundary of a telecommunications network is defined by section 22.
 (3) Subsection (2) does not, by implication, limit subsection (1).
 (4) If no regulations are in force for the purposes of subsection (1), then, for the purposes of this Act, customer equipment means:
 (a) any equipment, apparatus, tower, mast, antenna or other structure or thing that is used, installed ready for use or intended for use on the customer side of the boundary of a telecommunications network; or
 (b) any system (whether software‑based or otherwise) that is used, installed ready for use or intended for use on the customer side of the boundary of a telecommunications network;
but does not include:
 (c) a line; or
 (d) equipment of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or
 (e) an apparatus, tower, mast, antenna or other structure or thing that is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or
 (f) a system (whether software‑based or otherwise) that is of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph.
Note : Boundary of a telecommunications network is defined by section 22.