Licence Area Plan – Roxby Downs Community Radio

Licence Area Plan – Roxby Downs Community Radio

made under section 26(1) of the

Broadcasting Services Act 1992

Compilation No.  1

Compilation date:    14 November 2023

Includes amendments up to: F2023L01488

Prepared by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, Melbourne

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the Licence Area Plan – Roxby Downs Community Radio that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 14 November 2023 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

Uncommenced amendments

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LICENCE AREA PLAN – ROXBY DOWNS COMMUNITY RADIO

(1) This plan for community broadcasting services in the Roxby Downs area of South Australia is made under subsection 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

(2) One community radio broadcasting service is to be made available in the area described at Attachment 1.1 to this plan with the use of broadcasting services bands. The characteristics, including technical specifications, of the service that is to be available in the area described at Attachment 1.1 are set out in Schedule One and Attachment 1.2 to this plan.

(3) In this plan, unless the contrary intention appears:

(a) a reference to a schedule or an attachment is a reference to a schedule or an attachment to this plan;

(b) a reference to a legislative instrument is a reference to that instrument as in force from time to time;

(c) a reference to any other kind of instrument or writing is a reference to that other kind of instrument or writing as in force or in existence at the time the reference was included in this plan.

Note 1: For references to Commonwealth Acts, see section 10 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901; and see also subsection 13(1) of the Legislation Act 2003 for the application of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 to legislative instruments.

Note 2: All Commonwealth Acts and legislative instruments are registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

(4) For the area mentioned in clause (2), Schedule One specifies the radiocommunications transmitters planned for the provision of broadcasting services by reference to:

(a) the Attachment that determines the technical specifications for each transmitter; and

(b) the frequency on which each transmitter is planned to operate and the approximate geographic area each transmitter is planned to serve; and

(c) the technical specification number for each transmitter and, for a transmitter planned for the provision of a service under a broadcasting services bands licence, the licence number of that licence.

(5) Each Attachment, other than an attachment that describes an area within which broadcasting services are to be available, determines the following technical specifications for a radiocommunications transmitter specified in Schedule One:

(a) subject to clause (6), a description, and geographic coordinates, of the location (nominal location) from where the radiocommunications transmitter must be operated;

(b) the frequency on which the transmitter must be operated;

(c) the frequency band containing that frequency, and the mode of transmission the transmitter must use;

(d) the required polarisation of the transmission made by the transmitter;

(e) the maximum antenna height for the transmitter;

(f) the maximum effective radiated power (ERP), in each specified direction, of transmissions made by the transmitter;

(g) any special conditions that apply to the operation of the transmitter;

(h) any circumstances that must exist for the transmitter to be able to be operated, or that prohibit the transmitter from being operated.

(6) A radiocommunications transmitter may be operated from a location other than a nominal location (alternative site) if operation from the alternative site complies with any requirements set out for the transmitter and for the operation of the transmitter in guidelines made under section 33 of the Act in relation to operation from an alternative site.

Note: Guidelines under section 33 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 are available, free of charge, from the Federal Register of Legislation at www.legislation.gov.au. At the time this clause commenced, the Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017 were the guidelines in force under section 33.

(7) In this plan, radiocommunications transmitter has the meaning given by the Radiocommunications Act 1992.

SCHEDULE ONE

Licence Area Plan : Roxby Downs Community Radio

Licence Area : ROXBY DOWNS RA1

Attachment 1.1

LICENCE AREA – ROXBY DOWNS RA1

SERVICE LICENCE NUMBER: SL1150824

The licence area, in terms of areas defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics at the Census of 5 August 2001, is: 

Note: 

Standard terminology used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics: 

(M)  =   Municipality

Attachment 1.2

LICENCE AREA PLAN : Roxby Downs Community Radio

Category :    Community

General Area Served :   Roxby Downs (SA)

Service Licence Number :  SL1150824

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION - FM Radio

Specification Number :  TS10010805

Transmitter Site :-

Nominal location :   Council Depot  28 Olympic Way ROXBY DOWNS

Nominal Co-ordinates  Latitude  Longitude

(GDA94) : -30.554481  136.893775

Emission :-

Frequency Band & Mode :  VHF-FM

Carrier Frequency :   105.5 MHz

Polarisation :    Mixed

Maximum antenna height :  20 m

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Output Radiation Pattern :-

Endnotes

Endnote 1—About the endnotes

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Endnote 1—About the endnotes

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Endnote 4—Amendment history

Abbreviation key—Endnote 2

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Legislation history and amendment history—Endnotes 3 and 4

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Misdescribed amendments

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If a misdescribed amendment cannot be given effect as intended, the amendment is not incorporated and “(md not incorp)” is added to the amendment history.

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Endnote 4—Amendment history