Wireless Telegraphy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1976 No. 222

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905.*

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 this sixth day of October, 1976.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

ERIC ROBINSON

Minister of State for Post and Telecommunications.

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Amendments of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 

Licences.

1. Regulation 5 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the words “ in the second column ” and substituting the words “ in Column 2 ”.

Licence fees.

2. Regulation 7 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the words “ in the third column ” and substituting the words “ in Column 3 ”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the words “ in the second column ” and substituting the words “ in Column 2 ”.

Schedule.

3. The Schedule to the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:—

SCHEDULE

Sub-regulations 5 (1)

and 7 (1)

Classes of Licences and Fees Payable For Licences

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Class of licence	Column 3 Fee
$
1	Aeronautical station..................................................................................................................................	20
2	Aircraft station...........................................................................................................................................	20
3	Amateur station..........................................................................................................................................	12
4	Novice amateur station.............................................................................................................................	6

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 7 October 1976.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 348, as amended by Statutory Rules 1945, No. 185; 1947, No. 129; 1951, No. 19; 1954, No. 50; 1955, No. 1; 1958, No. 54; 1959, No. 65; 1967, Nos. 110 and 170; 1972, No. 206; 1974, No. 173; and 1975, No. 64; and by Act No. 85 of 1970.

Schedule—continued

Column I Item	Column 2 Class of licence	Column 3 Fee
$
5	Base station..............................................................................................................................................	20
6	Coast station............................................................................................................................................	20
7	Earth station.............................................................................................................................................	20
8	Experimental station...............................................................................................................................	20
9	Fixed outpost station..............................................................................................................................	2
10	Fixed receiving station...........................................................................................................................	12
11	Fixed station............................................................................................................................................	20
12	Handphone station..................................................................................................................................	20
13	Harbour mobile station..........................................................................................................................	20
14	Interior paging service............................................................................................................................	20
15	Limited coast station..............................................................................................................................	20
16	Land mobile station................................................................................................................................	20
17	Mobile outpost station...........................................................................................................................	2
18	Public paging station..............................................................................................................................	12
19	Radio determination station..................................................................................................................	20
20	Radio-linked microphone service.........................................................................................................	20
21	Repeater station.......................................................................................................................................	20
22	Ship station..............................................................................................................................................	20

Application.

4.The Wireless Telegraphy Regulations as amended by these Regulations apply in relation to—

(a) a licence granted for a period commencing on or after 8 October 1976; and

(b) the renewal of a licence where the licence or the last preceding renewal of the licence, as the case may be, expires on or after that date.