Commonwealth legislation

Licence Area Plan – Scottsdale Radio

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This licence area plan, made under subsection 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, specifies which radio services may operate in the Scottsdale, Tasmania area. It provides for seven national and two commercial services (see Attachment 1.1) and one community service (see Attachment 2.1), with technical characteristics set out in Schedule One/Two and the listed attachments.

The plan requires service providers to operate within the prescribed broadcasting bands and to meet the technical specifications; it also relies on the Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017 and other instruments as in force, so compliance obligations fall on broadcasters.

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LICENCE AREA PLAN - SCOTTSDALE RADIO

(1) This plan for broadcasting services in the Scottsdale area of Tasmania is made under subsection 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

(2) Seven national radio broadcasting services and two commercial radio broadcasting services are to be available in the area described at Attachment 1.1 to this plan with the use of the broadcasting services bands. The characteristics, including technical specifications, of the services that are to be available in the area described at Attachment 1.1 are set out in Schedule One and Attachments 1.2 - 1.11 to this plan.

(3) One community radio broadcasting service is to be available in the area described at Attachment 2.1 to this plan with the use of the broadcasting services bands. The characteristics, including technical specification, of the service that is to be available in the area described at Attachment 2.1 are set out in Schedule Two and Attachments 2.2 – 2.4 to this plan.

(4) In this plan, unless the contrary intention appears:

(a) a reference to a schedule or an attachment is a reference to a schedule or an attachment to this plan; and

(b) a reference to the Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017 is a reference to that instrument as in force from time to time; and

(c) a reference to any other legislative instrument is a reference to that other instrument as in force from time to time; and

(d) a reference to any other kind of instrument or writing is a reference to that other kind of instrument or writing as in force or in existence at the time the reference was included in this plan.

Note 1: For references to Commonwealth Acts, see section 10 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901; and see also subsection 13(1) of the Legislation Act 2003 for the application of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 to legislative instruments.

Note 2: All Commonwealth Acts and legislative instruments are registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

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