EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Issued by the Australian Communications and Media Authority
The Radiocommunications (Electromagnetic Radiation – Human Exposure) Amendment Standard 2011 (No. 2)
Radiocommunications Act 1992
Purpose
The Radiocommunications (Electromagnetic Radiation – Human Exposure) Amendment Standard 2011 (No. 2) (the Amendment Standard) seeks to correct a drafting error which affected the Radiocommunications (Electromagnetic Radiation – Human Exposure) Amendment Standard 2011 (No. 1) (the first amendment) and which came into effect on 1 February 2011. Because of that error, the first amendment included an incorrect reference to a technical standard which applied before 1 March 2009. The Amendment Standard corrects that error to ensure that there is no confusion about the technical standard which applied in the past – i.e. before 1 March 2009.
Notes on the instrument
Section 1 Name of Standard
Section 1 provides that the Amendment Standard is to be named the Radiocommunications (Electromagnetic Radiation — Human Exposure) Amendment Standard 2011 (No. 2).
Section 2 Commencement
Section 2 provides that the Amendment Standard commences on the day after it is registered.
Section 3 Amendment of Radiocommunications (Electromagnetic Radiation – Human Exposure) Standard 2003
Section 3 provides that the existing Standard is amended as detailed in Schedule 1 of the Amendment Standard.
Schedule 1 Amendment
[1] Subsection 10 (2), table, Item 1
This amendment corrects the error made in Radiocommunications (Electromagnetic Radiation – Human Exposure) Amendment Standard 2011 (No. 1) by deleting the reference to the standard “IEC 62209-1” and substituting a reference to the correct standard which applied before 1 March 2009, namely standard “EN 62209-1”.