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

Statutory Rules 1987 No. 3321

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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 Regulation under the Radiocommunications Act 1983.

Dated 21 December 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GARETH EVANS

Minister of State for Transport and Communications

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After regulation 18aof the Radiocommunications (Licensing and General) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Functions or duties in relation to defence

“18b. For the purposes of subsection 8 (1) of the Act, a function or duty of a member of the Defence Force, or of an officer of the Department of Defence, in relation to:

(a) the control, administration, operation or use of the Defence Force or of any unit of the Defence Force;

(b) the collection or dissemination of information for a purpose relating to the security or defence of Australia; or

(c) the control or operation of any system, equipment, weapon or thing intended for use in combat;

is to be taken to be a function or duty in relation to command and control, intelligence or weapons systems, as the case may be.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 January 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 195 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1987 No. 61 and see also