Radiocommunications Standard (Short Range Devices) No. 1 of 1996 (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1996   No. 311¹

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Radiocommunications Standard (Short Range Devices) No. 1 of 1996

I, CHRISTINE MARY GOODE, Spectrum Manager, acting on behalf of the Spectrum Management Agency, make the following Standard under subsection 162 (1) of the Radiocommunications Act 1992.

Dated 13 December 1996.

CHRISTINE M. GOODE

Spectrum Manager

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Citation

1.   This Standard may be cited as the Radiocommunications Standard (Short Range Devices) No. 1 of 1996.

[NOTE: This Standard commences on gazettal: see Radiocommunications Act 1992, s. 164.]

Definitions

2.   In this instrument:

“short range device” means any of the kinds of radiocommunications device referred to in column 2 of Table ZZ1 of Australian Standard AS 4268.2—1995 that is capable of being operated on carrier frequencies within the frequency bands referred to in column 3 of that Table;

“the Act” means the Radiocommunications Act 1992.

Standard for certain devices operating at frequencies between 25 MHz and 25 GHz

3.   (1)    For paragraph 162 (1) (a) of the Act, the standard for the performance of a short range device is the standard set out in Australian Standard AS 4268.2—1995 as in force when this Standard commences, other than the following provisions:

(a)   the provisions under the heading “FOREWORD”;

(b)   the second, third and ninth paragraphs of the provisions under the heading “INTRODUCTION”;

(c)   the heading:

“1             Scope”;

and the provisions under that heading;

(d)   subclause 4.2.4;

(e)   clause 4.5;

(f)   the heading:

“9             Measurement uncertainty”;

and the provisions under that heading;

(g)   Annex A;

(h)   columns 8 of items 1 to 18 (inclusive) of Table ZZ1.

(2)   For the application of that Australian Standard, the Standard is modified as set out in the following Table.

TABLE

Provision

Modification

Wherever occurring

Omit “I-ETS”, substitute “Australian Standard”

Wherever occurring

Omit “an accredited test laboratory”, substitute “a test laboratory”

Wherever occurring

Omit “the accredited test laboratory”, substitute “the test laboratory”

Wherever occurring

Omit “national regulatory authority”, substitute “test laboratory”

Clause 7.1

Omit the first sentence, substitute:

“Frequency error must be measured if the equipment is of the kind mentioned in column 2 of item 19 of Table ZZ1 and is capable of producing an unmodulated carrier.”

Subclause 7.2.2

Omit “CISPR Publication 16 [4]”, substitute “Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ 1052:1992, as in force when Radiocommunications Standard (Short Range Devices) No. 1 of 1996 commences” 

TABLE—continued

Provision

Modification

Subclause 7.3.2

Omit “CISPR Publication 16 [4]”, substitute “Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ 1052:1992, as in force when Radiocommunications Standard (Short Range Devices) No. 1 of 1996 commences” 

Clause 7.7

Omit “CISPR Publication 16 [4]”, substitute “Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ 1052:1992, as in force when Radiocommunications Standard (Short Range Devices) No. 1 of 1996 commences” 

Appendix ZZ

Omit the item that starts with “Clause 7.1.3”, substitute:

“Clause 7.1.3   Substitute for the Clause  ’In Australia the measurement is converted to a percentage of the carrier frequency and the frequency stability shall not exceed the value set out in column 8 of item 19 of Table ZZ1.’ ”

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NOTE

1.   Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 December 1996.