WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) 1980 NO. 188 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) 1980 NO. 188 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Commencement 2. Interpretation 3. Licence fees 4. 5. Period of licence 6. Renewal of licences 7. Schedule SCHEDULE 1 1980 No. 188 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 1 Commencement 1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 July 1980. 1980 No. 188 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 2 Interpretation 2. Regulation 3 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended- (a) by omitting the definition of "licensed equipment" in sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following definition: " 'licensed equipment' means equipment used in connection with a station in respect of which a licence is in force;"; (b) by omitting "or equipment" from the definition of "station" in sub-regulation (1); and (c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation: "(3) A reference in these Regulations to a private station is a reference to a station that is used solely for purposes other than business purposes.". 1980 No. 188 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 3 Licence fees 3. Regulation 7 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended- (a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) "the next two succeeding sub-regulations, the fee payable in respect of the grant or renewal of a licence is the fee" and substituting "this regulation, a fee is payable, in respect of each year in respect of which a licence is granted or renewed, at the rate"; and (b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1A) "The fee payable" and substi- tuting "No fee is payable"; (c) by omitting from sub-regulation (1A) ", is Two dollars"; and (d) by inserting after sub-regulation (1A) the following sub-regulation: "(1B) Notwithstanding sub-regulation (1), where- (a) an application in respect of a licence is made by a person who is a member of an organization formed for purposes other than business purposes; (b) the application is in respect of a licence in respect of a private station that is to be operated in connection with the activities of the organization; (c) the application is lodged by the organization, together with not less than 24 other applications, each of which- (i) is of the kind referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b); and (ii) is in respect of the grant or renewal of a licence in respect of a period that commences on the same day; and (d) the application, together with the fee payable in respect of the grant or renewal, as the case requires, is lodged before the commencement of that period, the fee payable in respect of the grant of the licence is the fee that would, but for this sub-regulation, be payable in respect of the licence, less an amount equal to 10 per cent of that fee.". 1980 No. 188 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 4 4. After regulation 7 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations the following regulation is inserted: Handphone station licence "8. The licensee of a licence granted in respect of a handphone station or citizen band radio station shall not use more than 5 handphones in connection with the station.". 1980 No. 188 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 5 Period of licence 5. Regulation 9 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended by omitting "one year" and substituting "3 years". 1980 No. 188 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 6 Renewal of licences 6. Regulation 11 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended by omitting "a period not exceeding one year" and substituting "such period, not exceeding 3 years, as the Minister determines". 1980 No. 188 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 7 Schedule 7. The Schedule to the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is repealed and the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations substituted. ---------------- 1980 No. 188 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE Sub-regulations 5 (1) and 7 (1) CLASSES OF LICENCES AND FEES PAYABLE FOR LICENCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Rate per year Item No. Class of Licence of fee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- $ 1 Aeronautical station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2 Aeronautical station, not included in item 1 . . . . . . . 50 3 Aircraft station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4 Aircraft station, not included in item 3 . . . . . . . . . 30 5 Amateur station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 6 Base station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 7 Base station, not included in item 6 . . . . . . . . . . . 50 8 Citizen band radio station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 9 Citizen band radio station, not included in item 8 . . . . 40 10 Coast station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 11 Earth station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 12 Earth station, not included in item 11 . . . . . . . . . . 75 13 Experimental station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 14 Fixed outpost station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 15 Fixed receiving station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 16 Fixed station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 17 Fixed station, not included in item 16 . . . . . . . . . . 40 18 Handphone station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 19 Handphone station, not included in item 18 . . . . . . . . 25 20 Harbour mobile station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 21 Harbour mobile station, not included in item 20 . . . . . . 32 22 Interior paging service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 23 Land mobile station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 24 Land mobile station, not included in item 23 . . . . . . . 32 25 Limited coast station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 26 Limited coast station, not included in item 25 . . . . . . 50 27 Marine rescue station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 28 Mobile outpost station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 29 Novice amateur station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 30 Paging station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 31 Radiodetermination station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 32 Radio-linked microphone service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 33 Repeater station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 34 Repeater station, not included in item 33 . . . . . . . . . 40 35 Ship station, private . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 36 Ship station, not included in item 35 . . . . . . . . . . . 32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- - NOTES 1980 No. 188 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS*1* *2* (AMENDMENTS) *1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 June 1980. *2* Statutory Rules 1942 No. 348 as amended by Statutory Rules 1943 No. 185; 1947 No. 129; 1951 No. 19; 1954 No. 50; 1955 No. 1; 1958 No. 54; 1959 No. 65; 1967 Nos. 110 and 170; 1972 No. 206; 1974 No. 173; 1975 No. 64; 1976 No. 222; 1977 No. 165; 1978 No. 25; 1979 Nos. 29 and 106; and by Act No. 85 of 1970.