Radiocommunications Act 1989

Rights and duties of managers and rightholders

99: Rights conferred on rightholder by spectrum licence

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"What you can do with a spectrum licence to transmit radio waves"

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You have a spectrum licence to transmit radio waves. You can transmit radio waves if you follow the rules. You can find these rules in section 101. You can also receive radio waves without interference. This is allowed if you have a spectrum licence for a protection area. You must follow the rules in section 101. If you follow the rules in section 102, you can transmit unwanted emissions. This is part of your right to transmit radio waves. You must have a spectrum licence to do this.

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100: Rights of holders of certain licences, or

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Part 11Rights and duties of managers and rightholders

99Rights conferred on rightholder by spectrum licence

Every rightholder who has a spectrum licence to transmit radio waves and to receive no harmful interference from co-channel emissions in a protection area has the right to transmit radio waves and to receive no harmful interference from co-channel emissions in that protection area in accordance with that licence while the rightholder's spectrum licence is in force and the rightholder is complying with the requirements in section 101.
Every rightholder who has a spectrum licence to transmit radio waves has the right to transmit radio waves in accordance with that spectrum licence while the rightholder's spectrum licence is in force and the rightholder is complying with the requirements in section 101.
Every rightholder who has a spectrum licence containing the right to receive no harmful interference from co-channel emissions in a protection area has the right to receive no harmful interference from co-channel emissions in the protection area in accordance with that spectrum licence while the rightholder's spectrum licence is in force and the rightholder is complying with the requirements in section 101.
If the rightholder complies with section 102, the right to transmit radio waves includes the right to transmit unwanted emissions.

Notes

Section 99: substituted, on 12 October 2001, by section 28 of the Radiocommunications Amendment Act 2000 (2000 No 8).