Commonwealth legislation

Licence Area Plan - Cairns (Radio) - October 1997

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This instrument establishes the licence-area boundaries and technical planning rules for radio services in the Cairns area, setting who may hold radio licences and the technical conditions they must meet. It affects existing and prospective broadcasters and the regulator; it matters because those rules determine market access, technical obligations and the compliance costs of operating a radio service. The endnotes record successive formal variations (1998, 2004, 2011, 2017, 2018) that change implementation details, shifting administrative and technical compliance burdens onto licensees and requiring regulator updates.

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Endnotes

Endnote 1 – About the endnotes

The endnotes provide information about this compilation and the compiled law.

Endnote 2 (Abbreviation key) sets out abbreviations that may be used in the endnotes.

Endnote 3 (Legislation history) provides information about each law that has amended (or will amend) the compiled law. The information includes commencement details for amending laws and details of any application, saving or transitional provisions that are not included in this compilation.

Endnote 4 (Amendment history) provides information about the amendments at the provision (generally section or equivalent) level and includes information about any provision of the compiled law that has been repealed in accordance with a provision of the law.

It also includes information about any misdescribed amendment (that is, an amendment that does not accurately describe the amendment to be made). If, despite the misdescription, the amendment can be given effect as intended, the amendment is incorporated into the compiled law and the abbreviation “(md)” added to the details of the amendment included in the amendment history. If a misdescribed amendment cannot be given effect as intended, the abbreviation “(md not incorp)” is added to the details of the amendment included in the amendment history.

Endnote 2—Abbreviation key

ad = added or inserted	(md) = misdescribed
am = amended	rs. = repealed and substituted
rep. = repealed

Endnote 3—Legislation history

Name	Date of notificationin Gazette or registration	Date of commencement
Radio Licence Area Plan Cairns (Radio) October 1997	5 November 1997	5 November 1997
Variation to Licence Area Plan Cairns (Radio) October 1998	21 October 1998	21 October 1998
Variation to Licence Area Plan Cairns (Radio) September 2004	6 October 2004	6 October 2004
Variation to the Licence Area Plan for Cairns Radio – No. 1 of 2011	24 March 2011	25 March 2011
Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines (Consequential Amendments) Instrument 2017 (No. 1)	29 September 2017(F2017L01299)	30 September 2017
Variation to Licence Area Plan – Cairns Radio – 2018 (No.1)	7 June 2018 (see F2018L00729)	8 June 2018

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