Radiocommunications (Licensing and General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 1931

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Radiocommunications (Licensing and General) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Radiocommunications Act 1983.

Dated 14 July 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RALPH WILLIS

Minister of State for Transport and Communications

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Principal Regulations

1. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Radiocommunications (Licensing and General) Regulations.

Interpretation

2. Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is amended:

(a) by inserting in subregulation (1) the following definition:

“‘ancillary communications service network’ means a network of stations that is used for the simultaneous transmission or retransmission of a secondary radiocommunications service, being a service provided by means of the main carrier signal of a primary radio or television broadcasting service;”;

 

(b) by omitting paragraph (a) from the definition of “multipoint distribution station receiver” in subregulation (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a) established solely for the reception of radio transmissions from a multipoint distribution station or a multipoint distribution repeater station, other than such a station in its capacity as a part of a licensed ancillary communications service network, Class B; and”;

(c) by omitting the definition of “narrowband area receiver” in subregulation (1) and substituting the following definition:

“‘narrowband area receiver’ means a station:

(a) established solely for the reception of radio transmissions from a narrowband area station, other than such a station in its capacity as a part of a licensed ancillary communications service network, Class A; and

(b) that uses a single frequency and an occupied bandwidth not exceeding 4 megahertz;”.

Schedule 1

3. Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting after item 10 the following items:

“10a Ancillary communications service network, Class A	An ancillary communications service network of broadcasting stations.
10b Ancillary communications service network, Class B	An ancillary communications service network of television stations.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 July 1989.

2. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 195 as amended by 1985 No. 221; 1986 Nos. 125, 197, 213 and 278; 1987 Nos. 61, 272 and 332; 1988 Nos. 120, 156 and 348.