Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1996 No. 73 TELECOMMUNICATIONS (GENERAL) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 3

3.1 After regulation 7, insert: Connections that are not timed connections

"7A. (1) For the purposes of subsection 305 (2) of the Act, the following
connections are prescribed:

   (a)  a connection for a local call;

   (b)  a connection for a call made to an operator for the purposes of the
        caller requesting the assistance of the operator to establish:

        (i)    a person to person connection; or

        (ii)   a connection that is known as a 'number to number connection'.

"(2) In this regulation:
'charging zone' means a charging zone specified in the table in attachment 3
to the document known as the 'Telstra Public Switched Telephone Service
Tariff' forming part of the document known as the 'Telstra Basic Carriage
Service Tariff' as in force from time to time;
'local call' means a call that is dialled directly by a caller and made from a
charging zone in the domestic public switched telecommunications network to a
telephone service in the same, or an immediately adjacent, charging zone.
Calculation of timed traffic-certain parts of timed connections to be
disregarded

"7B. (1) For the purposes of subsection 305 (5) of the Act, the call set up
time in respect of a person to person connection must be disregarded.

"(2) In this regulation:
'call set up time' means that part of the duration of a person to person
connection:

   (a)  commencing when the connection is established; and

   (b)  ending when:

        (i)    the caller communicates with the particular person; or

        (ii)   the connection ends; whichever first occurs.".