EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1990 No 353
Radiocommunications (Licensing and General) Regulations (Amendment;)
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Transport and Communications
Subsection 93(1) of the Radiocommunications Act 1983 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.
Radiocommunications (Licensing and General) Regulations
Subparagraph 93(2)(h)(iii) provides that the Regulations may make provision for and in relation to fees to be payable in respect of examinations conducted under section 12 of the Act.
Section 12 of the Act provides that the Minister may issue to an applicant a certificate authorising the applicant to apply to a device, or a class of devices, a statement certifying that the device complies with a specified standard, made by the Minister under section 9 of the Act, as in force on a specified date.
Subsection 12(2) of the Act provides that the Minister may require the examination of a device for the purposes of section 12 of the Act.
Schedule 2 of the Radiocommunications (Licensing and General) Regulations (the L & G Regulations) sets out fees for examination of devices against ministerial standards for the purposes of section 12 of the Act.
The amending regulations added to Schedule 2 a new testing fee of $1,500 for testing of a device against Ministerial Standard No. 309 ‘406 MHz Satellite Distress Beacons” made on 21 December 1989.