Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 165

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905.

Dated this twenty-first day of September 1977.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

ERIC ROBINSON

Minister of State for Post and Telecommunications

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AMENDMENT OF THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATIONS†

Schedule

1. The Schedule to the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

SCHEDULE

Sub-regulations 5 (1)

and 7 (1)

Classes of Licences and Fees Payable for Licences

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Item No.

Class of licence

Fee

 

 

$

1

Aeronautical station.............................

20

2

Aircraft station.................................

25

3

Amateur station................................

12

4

Novice amateur station...........................

6

5

Base station...................................

20

6

Coast station..................................

20

7

Earth station..................................

20

8

Experimental station.............................

20

9

Fixed outpost station.............................

2

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 September 1977.

† Statutory Rules 1942, No. 348 as amended by Statutory Rules 1945, 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; and 1976, No. 222; and by Act No. 85 of 1970.


SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Item No.

Class of licence

Fee

 

 

$

10

Fixed receiving station...........................

12

11

Fixed station..................................

20

12

Handphone station..............................

25

13

Harbour mobile station...........................

25

14

Interior paging service............................

20

15

Limited coast station.............................

20

16

Land mobile station.............................

25

17

Mobile outpost station............................

2

18

Public paging station.............................

12

19

Radiodetermination station.........................

25

20

Radio-linked microphone service ....................

20

21

Repeater station................................

20

22

Ship station...................................

25

Application

2. The amendment of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations effected by these Regulations does not apply in relation to—

(a) a licence granted after the commencement of these Regulations in respect of a period commencing before 1 October 1977; or

(b) the renewal after the commencement of these Regulations of a licence where the licence, or the last preceding renewal of the licence, as the case may be, expires before 30 September 1977.