Wireless Telegraphy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 2421

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Wireless Telegraphy 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 Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905.

Dated 20 October 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

M. J. DUFFY

Minister of State for

Communications

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Licences to be in parts and to be exhibited

1. Regulation 10 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (4) "citizen band radio station licence," after "aircraft station licence".

Transmission of certain messages

2. Regulation 38 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended by omitting all words after "administering" and substituting "the Postal Services Act 1975, the Telecommunications Act 1975 or the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1 905, contravene the provisions of any of those Acts".

Stations with which amateur licensees may communicate

3. Regulation 56 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) all words from and including "personal nature:" and substituting "personal nature."; and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (3) and substituting the following sub-regulations:

"(3) The licensee of an amateur station shall not, on behalf of a third party, undertake the transmission or reception of messages—

(a) that directly or indirectly enable any person to obtain a pecuniary gain or other reward; or

(b) that relate to the commercial or financial affairs of any person.

"(4) The licensee of an amateur station shall not communicate with an amateur station in a country other than Australia the government of which has given notice that it objects to the transmission and reception of messages between amateur stations in that country and amateur stations outside that country.

"(5) Notwithstanding that the government of a country other than Australia has not objected to the transmission and reception of messages between amateur stations in that country and amateur stations outside that country, the licensee of an amateur station shall not, on behalf of a third party, communicate with an amateur station in that country unless the government of that country has made a special arrangement with the Government of the Commonwealth with respect to the transmission and reception of messages, on behalf of third parties, between amateur stations in Australia and amateur stations in that country.".

 

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 October 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1942 No. 348 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1983 No. 147 and see also