Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L00192:body:0:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L00192
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 3078–6024

an applicable AS/CA Standard, means an instrument that amends the applicable AS/CA Standard.

applicable AS/CA Standard, in relation to an item, has the meaning given by section 6.
AS/CA S043.1:2015 means the Australian Standard AS/CA S043.1:2015 – Requirements for Customer Equipment for connection to a metallic local loop interface of a Telecommunications Network – Part 1: General published by Communications Alliance Ltd in January 2015.
AS/CA S043.2:2015 means the Australian Standard AS/CA S043.2:2015 – Requirements for Customer Equipment for connection to a metallic local loop interface of a Telecommunications Network – Part 2: Broadband published by Communications Alliance Ltd in January 2015.
AS/CA S043.3:2015 means the Australian Standard AS/CA S043.3:2015 – Requirements for Customer Equipment for connection to a metallic local loop interface of a Telecommunications Network – Part 3: DC, low frequency AC and voiceband published by Communications Alliance Ltd in January 2015.
AS/CA S043.3 item means an item of customer equipment that is designed or intended for connection to a telecommunications network via a metallic local loop interface and designed, or intended, to include 1 or more of the following capabilities:
(a) DC power feeding or signalling;
(b) operation in the low frequency AC band below 300 Hz;
(c) operation in the voice frequency band;
      (d) operation above the voice frequency band up to 20 kHz.

AS/CA transition period has the meaning given by section 8.
broadband capability means the ability of an item of customer equipment to transmit a signal that uses a frequency above 20 kHz.
      included in a class of items has the meaning given by section 9.
      item means a thing that is customer equipment to which this Technical Standard applies, as provided by section 11, and includes a modified item.
      manufacturer, in relation to an item, includes (but is not limited to) a person who modifies the item.
metallic local loop means a metallic twisted pair communications wire in a carrier's telecommunications network that provides connectivity between a customer's premises and equipment in the telecommunications network.
      metallic local loop interface means an interface for an electrical connection to a metallic local loop.

      modified item means an item that has been modified, by or on behalf of the manufacturer or importer of the item, after the item was manufactured or imported and, for the avoidance of doubt, is the item as modified.
      original item has the meaning given by subsection 9(1).
      original modified item has the meaning given by subsection 9(2).
replacement standard, in relation to an applicable AS/CA Standard, means a standard that replaces the applicable AS/CA Standard.
voice frequency band means the range of frequencies from 300 Hz to 3.4 kHz (inclusive).
          Note In accordance with paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislative Instruments