Radiocommunications Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1997

No. 121 1

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Radiocommunications Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Radiocommunications Act 1992.

Dated 28 May 1997.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RICHARD ALSTON

Minister for Communications and the Arts

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Radiocommunications Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Regulation 3 (Interpretation)

2.1   Definition of “aeronautical frequencies”:

Omit “Radiocommunications—Australian Spectrum Plan”, substitute “spectrum plan”.

2.2   Definition of “aeronautical mobile-satellite frequencies”:

Omit “Radiocommunications—Australian Spectrum Plan”, substitute “spectrum plan”.

2.3   Definition of “aircraft station”:

Omit paragraph (b), substitute:

• “(b)

  is operated on aeronautical frequencies; and”.

2.4   Definition of “amateur frequencies”:

Omit “Radiocommunications—Australian Spectrum Plan”, substitute “spectrum plan”.

2.5   Definition of “amateur intermediate station”:

Omit paragraph (a), substitute:

“(a)

to whom:

• (i)

  a certificate of proficiency has been granted in relation to the Limited Amateur Operator’s Examination, which is a category of approved examination for the purposes of subsection 122 (2) of the Act; and

• (ii)

  a certificate of proficiency has been granted in relation to the Novice Amateur Operator’s Examination, which is a category of approved examination for the purposes of subsection 122 (2) of the Act; or”.

2.6   Definition of “amateur limited station”:

Paragraph (a):

Omit “referred to in regulation 16; or”, substitute “, which is a category of approved examination for the purposes of subsection 122 (2) of the Act; or”.

2.7   Definition of “amateur novice limited station”:

Paragraph (a):

Omit “referred to in regulation 17A; or”, substitute “, which is a category of approved examination for the purposes of subsection 122 (2) of the Act; or”.

2.8   Definition of “amateur novice station”:

Paragraph (a):

Omit “referred to in regulation 17; or”, substitute “, which is a category of approved examination for the purposes of subsection 122 (2) of the Act; or”.

2.9   Definition of “amateur station”:

Omit paragraph (b), substitute:

• “(b)

  is operated on amateur frequencies or frequency bands; and”.

2.10Definition of “amateur unrestricted station”:

Paragraph (a):

Omit “referred to in regulation 15; or”, substitute “, which is a category of approved examination for the purposes of subsection 122 (2) of the Act; or”.

2.11   Definition of “AUSSAT Service”:

Omit the definition.

2.12   After the definition of “authorised person”, insert:

“ ‘carriage service’ means a service for carrying communications by means of:

(a)

guided electromagnetic energy; or

(b)

unguided electromagnetic energy; or

(c)

guided and unguided electromagnetic energy;”.

2.13   Definition of “earth receive station”:

Paragraph (d):

After “SMA”, insert “, or a person accredited under section 263 of the Act,”.

2.14   Definition of “emergency position indicating radio beacon station”:

Omit “Radiocommunications—Australian Spectrum Plan”, substitute “spectrum plan”.

2.15   Definition of “fixed receive station”:

Paragraph (c):

After “SMA”, insert “, or a person accredited under section 263 of the Act,”.

2.16   Definition of “land mobile frequency”:

Omit “Radiocommunications—Australian Spectrum Plan”, substitute “spectrum plan”.

2.17   After the definition of “land station”, insert:

“ ‘licence conditions determination’, in relation to a licence, means licence conditions as determined by the SMA under paragraph 107 (1) (f) of the Act;”.

2.18  Definition of “limited coast marine rescue station”:

Paragraph (g):

Omit the paragraph, substitute:

• “(g)

  may operate on maritime frequencies;”.

2.19   Definition of “major coast receive station”:

Omit the definition, substitute:

“ ‘major coast receive station’ means a station:

• (a)

  that is used on land principally for receiving messages transmitted by maritime ship stations; and

• (b)

  that is not capable of transmitting messages of any kind; and

• (c)

  that may be used for receiving messages transmitted by:

  • (i)

    aircraft stations; and

  • (ii)

    land mobile stations; and

  • (iii)

    outpost stations; and

• (d)

  for which the SMA, or a person accredited under section 263 of the Act, undertakes coordination procedures for the purpose of minimising interference to reception;”.

2.20   Definition of “maritime coast station”:

Paragraph (a):

After “operated”, insert “on land”.

2.21   Definition of “maritime coast station”:

Paragraph (b):

Omit “if permitted by the transmitter licence that relates to the station—”, substitute “that”.

2.22   Definition of “maritime frequencies”:

Omit “Radiocommunications—Australian Spectrum Plan”, substitute “spectrum plan”.

2.23   Definition of “maritime ship station”:

Omit paragraph (d), substitute:

• “(d)

  operates on maritime frequencies; and”.

2.24   Definition of “outpost station”:

Omit the definition, substitute:

“ ‘outpost station’ means a station operating in the HF frequency band that is primarily established:

• (a)

  for the purposes of participation in an education program provided by a school of the air; or

• (b)

  to provide radiocommunications in a remote locality at which a connection to a carriage service is not provided; or

• (c)

  where a connection to a carriage service supplied to the public is provided at the remote locality where the station is situated—to provide radiocommunications in the locality for the purposes of an emergency that involves:

  • (i)

    prejudice to the security or defence of Australia; or

  • (ii)

    a serious threat to the environment; or

  • (iii)

    risk of injury to, or death of, a person; or

  • (iv)

    risk of damage to, or substantial loss of, property;

[NOTE: The HF frequency band is broadly defined as 3 MHz to 30  MHz: see Volume 1 of the International Telecommunication Union Radio Regulations published by the ITU and as in force from time to time.]”.

2.25   Definition of “Radiocommunications Australian Spectrum Plan”:

Omit the definition.

2.26   Definition of “radiodetermination frequencies”:

Omit “Radiocommunications—Australian Spectrum Plan”, substitute “spectrum plan”.

2.27   Definition of “ship station Class A”:

Paragraph (a):

Omit “and; and”, substitute “and”

2.28   After the definition of “Spectrum Manager”, insert:

“ ‘spectrum plan’ means the spectrum plan in force from time to time under the Act;”.

2.29   Definition of “survival craft station”:

Omit “Radiocommunications—Australian Spectrum Plan”, substitute “spectrum plan”.

3.   Regulation 4 (What is an Australian Satellite?)

3.1   Omit the regulation, substitute:

Australian satellites

 “4.(1) For the purposes of the definition of ‘Australian satellite’ in section 5 of the Act, the following satellites are declared to be Australian satellites:

• (a)

  space satellites operated by Optus Networks Pty Limited ACN 008 570 330 to provide communications services to Australia;

• (b)

  space satellites operated by Iridium LLC to provide mobile satellite services to Australia.

 “(2) In subregulation (1):

‘mobile satellite services’ has the meaning it has in the spectrum plan.

 “(3) A reference in subregulation (1) to services to Australia is a reference to services to, from and within Australia.”.

4.   Regulation 15 (Amateur Operator’s Examination)

4.1   Omit the regulation.

5.   Regulation 16 (Limited Amateur Operator’s Examination)

5.1   Omit the regulation.

6.Regulation 17 (Novice Amateur Operator’s Examination)

6.1   Omit the regulation.

7.   Regulation 17A (Novice Limited Amateur Operator’s Examination)

7.1   Omit the regulation.

8.   Regulation 37 (Charges relating to the SMA’s costs)

8.1   Paragraph 37 (f):

Omit “technical licence specification”, substitute “a licence conditions determination”.

9.   Schedule 1 (Examinations)

9.1   Items 2, 3, 4 and 5:

Omit the items.

10.   Repeal of Radiocommunications—Australian Spectrum Plan

10.1   Statutory Rules 1990 No. 413 is repealed.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 June 1997.

2. Statutory Rules 1993 No. 177 as amended by 1995 Nos. 62 and 259; 1996 No. 158.