Hi Kevin,
Thank you for your quick reply. Yeah, I have to admit to loosely throwing out the term “safety compliance”, which was meant to state your 3rd bullet point. I do have the 2009 amendment, but I would like to not have to deal with two documents. I’ll keep a watchful eye out for it. And yes, it did indeed help. Thanks again. Best regards, Ron ________________________________ From: Kevin Richardson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:23 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: C-Tick vs. A-Tick Hi Ron, When you say the A-Tick signifies safety compliance according to the TLN, this is true but you need to be a little careful when you refer to "safety compliance" in Australia for telecom equipment. The safety of equipment supplied in Australia can be broken into 3 areas of legislation/regulations: * the "Trade Practices Act" requires any item supplied in Australia must be "safe and fit for purpose" - this is loosely interpreted to mean that the equipment should comply with the appropriate product safety standards or if no product safety standards exists then a generic safety standard; * the various Australian State and Territory "Electrical Regulations" essentially divides equipment into 2 groups. One being "Declared Articles" or "Prescribed Articles" (depending upon which State/Territory you are in) and "Non-declared Articles". Formal approval from an Electrical Authority is required for "Declared Articles". These are typically potentially high risk house-hold type appliances (washing machines, toasters, heaters etc but also includes external power supplies such as those used with laptop and similar equipment). For Non-declared Articles, they are still required to comply with a minimum safety standard, AS/NZS 3820, but are not required to apply for formal Electrical Authority approval; and then there is * the TLN which simply requires almost all equipment captured by the TLN comply with AS/NZS 60950-1. As such, I tend to reserve the phrase safety compliance for use in relation to the formal approval situation under the electrical regulations. With regard to your question about when a consolidated version of the TLN + the most recent amendment (i.e. Amdt1:2009) will be available, I spoke with the ACMA 2 days ago and they are hoping it will be on the ComLaw web site in a couple of days. It should have been there already but has been delayed for some reason. The ComLaw site is not under ACMA control. It is a separate combined legal/regulatory document publication site. Hope this helps Ron. Best regards, Kevin Richardson Stanimore Pty Limited Compliance Advice & Solutions for Technology (Legislation/Regulations/Standards/Australian Agent Services) Ph: 02-4329-4070 (Int'l: +61-2-4329-4070) Fax: 02-4328-5639 (Int'l: +61-2-4328-5639) Mobile: 04-1224-1620 (Int'l: +61-4-1224-1620) Email: [email protected] or [email protected] URL: www.stanimore.com Confidentiality This material (this email including all attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information intended to be read or used by the addressees only. If you are not one of the intended recipients, any copying, disclosure, distribution, use of or reliance upon this material is prohibited. If you receive this material in error, please immediately notify Stanimore Pty Limited and delete/destroy all copies (electronic and hardcopy) of this email and all attachments. While the sender tries to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this material, Stanimore take no responsibility for any actions taken as a result of receiving this material or for any consequence of its use. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Pickard, RPQ [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 12 February 2010 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: C-Tick vs. A-Tick Hi Kevin, You provided some good information, but the A-tick mark also signifies safety compliance according to the TLN. Also, do you know when the TLN is supposed to consolidate all of its amendments as the ACMA website states will happen soon? Just being curious here. I look forward to your reply. Best regards, Ron ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Richardson Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:16 PM To: Nic Johnson; [email protected] Subject: RE: C-Tick vs. A-Tick Nic, It is not possibly to simply describe all equipment that requires the A-Tick instead of the C-Tick. As has been mentioned in a couple of the replies, primarily the C-Tick is required to indicate compliance with EMC, EMR and radiocommunications compliance, if such compliance is applicable. The A-Tick is used to indicate compliance with Australian telecommunications regulations, again if indeed the equipment is captured by those regulations. The Telecommunications Labelling Notice (TLN) specifies which categories of equipment are captured under the regulations and therefore those types of equipment that are required to be labelled with the A-Tick. This can be rather tricky however. some equipment may not in themselves be telecom type equipment but if for example they include an "extension port" for example that could be used for the connection of an external telephone of fax machine etc then the equipment is indeed captured. You really need to look at the TLN. All telecommunications equipment would also be captured by at least the EMC regulations and possible EMR and radiocommunications as well. There is no need to place both the A-Tick and C-Tick marks on any equipment however. The A-Tick mark, in addition to indicating compliance with telecom regulations, also signifies compliance with EMC. EMR and radiocommunications if applicable. Hope this helps. Best regards, Kevin Richardson Stanimore Pty Limited Compliance Advice & Solutions for Technology (Legislation/Regulations/Standards/Australian Agent Services) Ph: 02-4329-4070 (Int'l: +61-2-4329-4070) Fax: 02-4328-5639 (Int'l: +61-2-4328-5639) Mobile: 04-1224-1620 (Int'l: +61-4-1224-1620) Email: [email protected] or [email protected] URL: www.stanimore.com Confidentiality This material (this email including all attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information intended to be read or used by the addressees only. If you are not one of the intended recipients, any copying, disclosure, distribution, use of or reliance upon this material is prohibited. If you receive this material in error, please immediately notify Stanimore Pty Limited and delete/destroy all copies (electronic and hardcopy) of this email and all attachments. 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