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of the Act.
Part 2 – The A-tick
Note The A-tick is a protected symbol for the purposes of section 417 of the Act.

Schedule 4—Customer cabling and cabling-related customer equipment

(subsections 4(1) and 7(2))

Part 1 – Interpretation
1 Applicable technical standards

 (1) This clause sets out when a technical standard is an applicable technical standard in relation to an item for the purposes of this Instrument.
Note   This clause deals with applicable technical standards for customer cabling and cabling-related customer equipment.  Section 8 deals with applicable technical standards for customer equipment (other than cabling-related customer equipment).

       (2) A technical standard is an applicable technical standard in relation to an item if:

             (a) the item is of a kind mentioned in column 1 of the table in this clause;

             (b) the technical standard is a corresponding applicable technical standard mentioned in column 2 of that table; and

             (c) the technical standard consists of requirements that apply to the item.

         Table—Applicable technical standards
Item         Column 1                                                  Column 2                       Column 3                                                                                              Column 4

             Customer cabling  and cabling-related customer equipment  Applicable technical standard  Long title of the standard                                                                            Whether the standard is a high risk standard
       1.    Customer cabling and cabling-related customer equipment   AS/CA S008-2015                Telecommunications Technical Standard (Requirements for customer cabling products – AS/CA S008) 2015

                                   Example  Cabling-related customer equipment that is covered by item 1 includes:

               (a)       cable enclosures;

               (b)       patch panels;

               (c)       insulation displacement connectors and other similar termination modules (such as those used at a main distribution frame);

               (d)       conduit for the protection of customer cabling; and

               (e)       telecommunications wall sockets.
Note   Column 3 is included for information only.
2 Class of items to which a compliance label has, or has not, been applied

      In this Schedule:

             (a) a reference to a class of items to which a compliance label has been applied is a reference to a class of items in which each item that is included has had applied to it a compliance label; and

             (b) a reference to a class of items to which a compliance label has not been applied is a reference to a class of items in which each item that is included has not had applied to it a compliance label.

    3 Particular cabling item

  In this Schedule, particular cabling item means an item that is customer cabling or cabling-related customer equipment where:

             (a) the item complies with the technical standard AS/CA S008-2015; and

             (b) the installation of the item for connection to, or the connection of the item to, a telecommunications network or to a facility would be a type of cabling work for the purposes of Division 9 of Part 21 of the Act.

Part 2 – Applying a