Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2022-06-29
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Robert Troy (FF), Longford-Westmeath

I move amendment No. 13:
In page 104, to delete lines 1 to 20 and substitute the following:
“(7) In this section—
“basic rate”, in relation to a telephone line operated by a trader for the purpose referred to in subsection (1) , means:
(a) where the telephone line uses a freephone number, nil;
(b) where the telephone line uses a landline telephone number, the rate charged for a call to a landline telephone number;
(c) where the telephone line uses a mobile telephone number, the rate charged for a call to a mobile telephone number;
(d) where the telephone line uses a standard rate number, the rate charged for a call to a standard rate number;
(e) where the telephone line does not fall within any of paragraphs (a) to (d) , the rate charged for a call to a landline telephone number;
“freephone number” means a non-geographic number (other than a mobile telephone number, a standard rate number or a premium rate number), in respect of which the charge for a call is paid for by the called party and not the caller;
“landline telephone number” means a number from the national numbering scheme where part of its digit structure contains geographic significance used for routing calls to the physical location of the network termination point;
“mobile telephone number” means a mobile telephone number that is a nongeographic number (other than a freephone number, a standard rate number or a premium rate number);
“national numbering scheme” has the same meaning as it has in section 12 of the Communications Regulation Act 2002;
“network termination point” has the meaning assigned to it by Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (Recast);
“non-geographic number” means a number—
(a) that is not a landline telephone number, and
(b) that is from the national numbering scheme;
“premium rate number” means a non-geographic number that is used to provide a premium rate service within the meaning of the Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services and Electronic Communications Infrastructure) Act 2010;
“standard rate number” means a non-geographic number (other than a freephone number, a mobile telephone number or a premium rate number), in respect of which the rate charged to the caller does not exceed the rate charged for a call to a landline telephone number.”.

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Sitting date: 2022-06-29