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Radiocommunications Act 1989

Miscellaneous provisions - Reference standards

133: Secretary may issue reference standards

You could also call this:

"The Secretary can make rules for radio equipment to work properly."

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The Secretary can create rules about how well radio equipment works. You can find these rules in the Gazette. The Secretary can make rules for all radio equipment or just for some types. The Secretary can change or cancel these rules at any time. The rules can include standards from the Standards and Accreditation Act 2015, which you can find on the Standards and Accreditation Act 2015 website. This means the rules can use standards that are already set by New Zealand. The Secretary has the power to decide what these rules are and when to change them.

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Part 15Miscellaneous provisions
Reference standards

133Secretary may issue reference standards

  1. The Secretary may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, issue standards or specifications relating to the performance of—

  2. any radio apparatus:
    1. radio apparatus of any class or classes:
      1. any system for the effecting of radiocommunication, whether by transmission or reception, or both.

        1. Any reference standard may be in like manner amended or revoked at any time.

        2. Any reference standard may adopt as a standard or specification any New Zealand Standard or any part of a New Zealand Standard (as that term is defined in the Standards and Accreditation Act 2015).

        Notes
        • Section 133(3): replaced, on , by section 45(1) of the Standards and Accreditation Act 2015 (2015 No 91).