If you have a radio licence and you change your name or address, you must tell the Registrar within one month. You need to give them your new name or address. If you do not do this, you may commit an infringement offence.

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24: Correction of register, or

"Fixing mistakes in the radiocommunications register"

25: Registrar's duties in relation to registration of spectrum licences, or

"The Registrar's job is to check and register spectrum licences correctly."

Part 3Registration

24ADuty to notify change of name or address

If a rightholder or manager or holder of a radio licence changes that person's name or address, that person must, within 1 month after the change, notify the Registrar of the person's new name or address.
A breach of subsection (1) is an infringement offence.

Notes

Section 24A: inserted, on 31 October 2006, by section 10 of the Radiocommunications Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 54).