Radiocommunications (Communication with Space Object) Class Licence Variation 2011 (No. 1) (Cth)

Radiocommunications (Communication with Space Object) Class Licence Variation 2011 (No. 1)

Radiocommunications Act 1992

The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY makes this Variation under section 134 of the Radiocommunications Act 1992.

Dated 11 July 2011

Chris Chapman

[signed]

Member

Richard Bean

[signed]

~~General Manager~~/Member

Australian Communications and Media Authority

1 Name of Variation

This Variation is the Radiocommunications (Communication with Space Object) Class Licence Variation 2011 (No. 1).

Commencement

This Variation commences on the later of:

(a) the day after it is registered; and

(b) the day on which it is published in the Gazette.

Note All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See Variation of Radiocommunications (Communication with Space Object) Class Licence 1998

Schedule 1 varies the Radiocommunications (Communication with Space Object) Class Licence 1998.

Schedule 1 Variations

(section 3)

[1] Paragraph 8 (1) (c)

omit

(c) the Mt Pleasant Observatories.

insert

(c) the Mt Pleasant Observatories; or

(d) the Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory.

[2] After subsection 8 (4) and before the notes

insert

(5) Paragraph (1) (d) is contravened only if the interference is caused by a station that is:

(a) operating in the frequency bands mentioned in paragraphs 6 (2) (a) to (g); and

(b) is located within 70 kilometres distance from the Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory.

[3] After section 8, note 4

insert

Note 5 On the day on which the Radiocommunications (Communication with Space Object) Class Licence Variation 2011 (No.1) comes into force, the Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory is situated at latitude 26.704167 South, longitude 116.658889 East (GDA94).