Wireless Telegraphy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 188

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 19051

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 twenty-eighth day of June 1980.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. A. STALEY

Minister of State for Post and Telecommunications

Amendments OF the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations2

Commencement

 1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 July 1980.

Interpretation

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

• (a)

  by omitting the definition of “licensed equipment” in sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following definition:

“ ‘licensed equipment’ means equipment used in connection with a station in respect of which a licence is in force;”;

• (b)

  by omitting “or equipment” from the definition of “station” in sub-regulation (1); and

• (c)

  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

• “(3)

  A reference in these Regulations to a private station is a reference to a station that is used solely for purposes other than business purposes.”.

Licence fees

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

• (a)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “the next two succeeding sub-regulations, the fee payable in respect of the grant or renewal of a licence is the fee” and substituting “this regulation, a fee is payable, in respect of each year in respect of which a licence is granted or renewed, at the rate”; and

• (b)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (1A) “The fee payable” and substituting “No fee is payable”;

• (c)

  by omitting from sub-regulation (1A) “, is Two dollars”; and

• (d)

  by inserting after sub-regulation (1A) the following sub-regulation:

• “(1B)

  Notwithstanding sub-regulation (1), where —

  • (a)

    an application in respect of a licence is made by a person who is a member of an organization formed for purposes other than business purposes;

  • (b)

    the application is in respect of a licence in respect of a private station that is to be operated in connection with the activities of the organization;

  • (c)

    the application is lodged by the organization, together with not less than 24 other applications, each of which —

    • (i)

      is of the kind referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b); and

    • (ii)

      is in respect of the grant or renewal of a licence in respect of a period that commences on the same day; and

  • (d)

    the application, together with the fee payable in respect of the grant or renewal, as the case requires, is lodged before the commencement of that period,

the fee payable in respect of the grant of the licence is the fee that would, but for this sub-regulation, be payable in respect of the licence, less an amount equal to 10 per cent of that fee.”.

 4. After regulation 7 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Handphone station licence

• “8.

  The licensee of a licence granted in respect of a handphone station or citizen band radio station shall not use more than 5 handphones in connection with the station.”.

Period of licence

 5. Regulation 9 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended by omitting “one year” and substituting “3 years”.

Renewal of licences

 6. Regulation 11 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended by omitting “a period not exceeding one year” and substituting “such period, not exceeding 3 years, as the Minister determines”.

Schedule

• 7.

  The Schedule to the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is repealed and the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations substituted.

ScheduleSub-regulations 5 (1) and 7 (1)

CLASSES OF LICENCES AND FEES PAYABLE FOR LICENCES

Column 1 Item No.	Column 2 Class of Licence	Column 3 Rate per year of fee
$
1	Aeronautical station, private	25
2	Aeronautical station, not included in item 1	50
3	Aircraft station, private	20
4	Aircraft station, not included in item 3	30
5	Amateur station	15
6	Base station, private	25
7	Base station, not included in item 6	50
8	Citizen band radio station, private	20
9	Citizen band radio station, not included in item 8	40
10	Coast station	75
11	Earth station, private	25
12	Earth station, not included in item 11	75
13	Experimental station	30
14	Fixed outpost station	2
15	Fixed receiving station	12
16	Fixed station, private	25
17	Fixed station, not included in item 16	40
18	Handphone station, private	20
19	Handphone station, not included in item 18	25
20	Harbour mobile station, private	15
21	Harbour mobile station, not included in item 20	32
22	Interior paging service	50
23	Land mobile station, private	20
24	Land mobile station, not included in item 23	32
25	Limited coast station, private	25
26	Limited coast station, not included in item 25	50
27	Marine rescue station	2
28	Mobile outpost station	2
29	Novice amateur station	10
30	Paging station	12
31	Radiodetermination station	60
32	Radio-linked microphone service	20
33	Repeater station, private	25
34	Repeater station, not included in item 33	40
35	Ship station, private	20
36	Ship station, not included in item 35	32

Notes

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 June 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1942 No. 348 as amended by Statutory Rules 1943 No. 185; 947 No. 129; 1951 No. 19; 1954 No. 50; 1955 No. 1; 1958 No. 54; 1959 No. 65; 967 Nos. 110 and 170; 1972 No. 206; 1974 No. 173; 1975 No. 64; 1976 No. 222; 1977 No. 165; 1978 No. 25; 1979 Nos. 29 and 106; and by Act No. 85 of 1970.