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Radiocommunications Act 1989

Registration of rightholders

55A: Transmissions in accordance with general user spectrum licences

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"Rules for transmitting radio waves with a general user licence"

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You have a general user spectrum licence if you follow the rules in section 48 of the Radiocommunications Act 1989. This licence lets you transmit radio waves on certain frequencies if you meet the conditions. You must comply with the conditions in the record of management rights and the spectrum licence. You can transmit radio waves on the specified frequency band if you follow the rules. You must not transmit unwanted emissions on certain frequencies at a level greater than the unwanted emission limit. This limit is specified in the general user spectrum licence. If you do not follow the rules, you commit an offence against the Act. You are not a rightholder if you transmit radio waves with a general user spectrum licence. You do not get rights or obligations under sections 99, 101, or 102 of the Act by using this licence.

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Part 6Registration of rightholders

55ATransmissions in accordance with general user spectrum licences

  1. This section applies to every spectrum licence created under section 48(1)(b) that is specified as a general user spectrum licence in accordance with section 48(3).

  2. A general user spectrum licence grants to every person permission to transmit radio waves on the frequency band specified in the general user spectrum licence if that person complies with—

  3. any conditions specified in the record of management rights in relation to which the general user spectrum licence is registered; and
    1. any conditions specified in the spectrum licence under section 49(1)(j); and
      1. Schedule 1.

        1. No person transmitting radio waves in accordance with a general user spectrum licence may transmit unwanted emissions on any frequency within the range of frequencies to which the unwanted emission limit specified in the general user spectrum licence applies, at a level greater than is specified in that general user spectrum licence as the unwanted emission limit applying to that frequency.

        2. No person transmitting radio waves in accordance with a general user spectrum licence may transmit unwanted emissions on any frequency that is not within the frequency band or the range of frequencies to which any unwanted emission limit specified in the general user spectrum licence applies, at a level greater than the power floor applying to that frequency in accordance with the record of management rights relating to that frequency at the time the general user spectrum licence was registered.

        3. Every person who transmits radio waves on a frequency specified in a general user spectrum licence and who fails to comply with subsections (2), (3), or (4) commits an offence against this Act.

        4. A person transmitting in accordance with a general user spectrum licence is not a rightholder and that person does not, by transmitting in accordance with a general user spectrum licence, acquire rights or obligations under sections 99, 101, or 102.

        Notes
        • Section 55A: inserted, on , by section 25 of the Radiocommunications Amendment Act 2000 (2000 No 8).