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Radiocommunications Act 1989

Registration

18: Procedure in relation to defective applications for registration

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"What happens if your application to register something is not correct?"

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If you lodge an instrument for registration and it is not in order, the Registrar can take action. The Registrar may return the instrument and other related instruments to you, or to someone else they think is entitled to receive them. The Registrar can also keep the instrument until any issues are fixed.

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Part 3Registration

18Procedure in relation to defective applications for registration

  1. Where any instrument lodged for registration with the Registrar is found not to be in order for registration, the Registrar may—

  2. return the instrument and all other instruments lodged in connection with that instrument, or such of them as the Registrar thinks fit, to the person by whom they were lodged or, where that person is not available, to such other person as may, in the opinion of the Registrar, be entitled to receive them; or
    1. retain the instrument pending rectification of any matter required by the Registrar to be rectified.