Radiocommunications Act 1989

Interference - Interference to receivers

105: Interference to receivers

You could also call this:

"Stopping Harmful Interference to Radio Receivers"

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You can take action if a receiver is interfered with. This happens when a receiver is tuned to get signals from a transmitter. The receiver must be on land where the transmitter is allowed to send signals. You can consider it an interference with your land if the receiver gets harmful interference. This is when the receiver is trying to get radio waves. The interference must be harmful to the reception of radio waves.

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Part 12Interference
Interference to receivers

105Interference to receivers

  1. For the purposes of any action in tort, it is declared that where a receiver is tuned to receive emissions from a transmitter operated by a rightholder in accordance with the rightholder's spectrum licence or by the holder of a radio licence in accordance with that radio licence, and that receiver is situated on land within the protection area of that licence, any harmful interference to the reception, by that receiver, of radio waves constitutes an interference with the enjoyment of land on which the receiver is situated.

Notes
  • Section 105: substituted, on , by section 34 of the Radiocommunications Amendment Act 2000 (2000 No 8).