EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULE 1989 NO. 26 ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF
THE MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
Subsection 9(1) of the Radiocommunications Act 1983 (‘the Act’) provides that the Minister may, by instrument in writing, make standards for specified devices or devices included in a specified class of device.
Subsection 9(2) of the Act provides that before making a standard the Minister shall publish the standard that he proposes to make and invite interested persons to make representations in connection with the proposed standard.
Subsection 9(5) of the Act provides that standards relating to radiocommunications transmitters may consist only of such requirements as to -
(a) the performance, design, finish and construction of radiocommunications transmitters; and
(b) markings, warnings, instructions or other statements to be impressed on, worked into, or annexed or affixed to, or to accompany, radiocommunications transmitters,
as are necessary for or in relation to-
(c) the operation of those radiocommunications transmitters;
(d) the prevention of prescribed interference, or risk of prescribed interference, to any other uses or functions of those radiocommunications transmitters; and
(e) the prevention or reduction of interference, or risk of interference, to radiocommunications.
Subsection 9(7) provides that standards relating to receivers may consist only of such requirements as to -
(a) the performance, design, finish and construction of those receivers; and
(b) markings, warnings, instructions or other statements to be impressed on, worked into, or annexed or affixed to, or to accompany, those receivers,
as are necessary or convenient to be made for or in relation to:
(c) the operation of those receivers; and
(d) the prevention or reduction of prescribed interference, or risk of prescribed interference, to any uses or functions of those receivers.
The Minister for Transport and Communications Support published a notice in the Gazette of 20 April 1988 setting out a proposed standard and inviting interested persons to comment on it by 31 May 1988. The proposed standard was also circulated for comment to importers and suppliers. The standard was signed by the Minister for Transport and Communications on 6 February 1989.
NOTES ON CLAUSES
PART 1 - PRELIMINARY
Clause 1 - | Citation |
Clause 2 - | Interpretation |
Clause 3 - | Provides that the standard applies to handphone stations designed or intended to operate in the 27 MHz Handphone Service. |
| Clause 3(2) provides that the requirements of Parts 3 and 4 of the standard do not apply to handphone stations as described in clause 3(1) where those stations are designed or intended to operate in services involving the assignment of frequencies other than those specified in clause 9 of the standard. |
PART 2 - GENERAL | |
Clause 4 - | Provides that where a device has been tested for compliance with the standard, details of the compliance statement certificate and type or model designation are to be displayed on the device. |
Clause 5 - | Provides that access to adjustment mechanisms which could permit operation of a device contrary to the technical requirements applying under the standard shall be restricted. |
Clause 6 - | Provides that a device shall operate within a specified temperature and primary supply voltage range. |
PART 3 - TRANSMITTER
Clause 7 - | Provides that for the purposes of Part 3 ‘transmitter’ means a device which is a radiocommunications transmitter. |
Clause 8 - | Provides that a transmitter is to be capable of operation only in two specified emission modes, and a maximum limit is set on the duration of the transmission of non-speech telephony per minute of transmission time. |
Clause 9 - | Provides that a transmitter is to be capable of operation only on 7 specified nominal carrier frequencis. |
Clause 10 - | Sets a maximum limit for the carrier frequency error of a transmitter. |
Clause 11 - | Provides that emissions from a transmitter are to be inhibited until the frequency stabilises so as to comply with clause 10. |
Clause 12 - | Sets a maximum limit for the carrier power of a transmitter. |
Clause 13 - | Sets a maximum limit for the rated peak envelope power of a transmitter operating in a specified emission mode. |
Clause 14 - | Sets a maximum limit for the depth of amplitude modulation operating in a specified emission mode under any modulation conditions. |
Clause 15 - | Sets the technical parameters for the automatic level control of a transmitter. |
Clause 16 - | Sets maximum limits for out-of-band emissions for a transmitter operating in a specified emission mode. |
Clause 17 - | Sets a maximum limit for spurious emissions from a transmsitter operating in a specified emission mode. |
Clause 18 - | Sets minimum levels for the supression of unwanted emissions from a transmitter operating in a specified emission mode. |
PART 4 - RECEIVER | |
Clause 19 - | Sets a maximum limit for spurious signals from a receiver. |