6Compliance with specifications, equipment compliance requirements, standards and equipment rules

6 Compliance with specifications, equipment compliance requirements, standards and equipment rules

(1) A person must not operate an aircraft station or aeronautical mobile station under this Class Licence unless: (a) if the device compliance day for the station occurs before 18 August 2016 – each device included in the station complies with section 6 of the Radiocommunications (Aircraft and Aeronautical Mobile Stations) Class Licence 2006 as in force immediately prior to that date; or (b) if the device compliance day for the station occurs on or after 18 August 2016, but before the day that Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Act 2020 commenced – each device included in the station complies with any standard applicable to it, as in force on the device compliance day; or (c) if the device compliance day for the station occurs on or after the day that Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Act 2020 commenced – each device included in the station complies with any equipment rules applicable to it, as in force on the device compliance day. Note: The Radiocommunications (118 MHz to 137 MHz Amplitude Modulated Equipment – Aeronautical Radio Service) Standard 2012, the Radiocommunications (406 MHz Satellite Distress Beacons) Standard 2014 and the Radiocommunications (VHF Radiotelephone Equipment – Maritime Mobile Service) Standard 2018 were standards that may have applied to aircraft stations and aeronautical mobile stations for the purposes of paragraph (b), and are equipment rules that may apply to aircraft stations and aeronautical mobile stations for the purposes of paragraph (c). (2) A person must not operate an aircraft station or aeronautical mobile station under this Class Licence unless each device included in the station complies with the requirements that apply to the device as specified in the ‘AS/NZS IEC 62287.1:2007: Maritime navigation and radiocommunications equipment and systems – Class B shipborne equipment of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) – Part 1: Carrier-sense time division multiple access (CSTDMA) techniques’ (other than clause 6.5.2), published by Standards Australia, as in existence from time to time, or another document published by Standards Australia that replaces that document.

Note 1: The AS/NZS IEC 62287.1:2007 Maritime navigation and radiocommunications equipment and systems – Class B shipborne equipment of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) is available for a fee from SAI Global Pty Limited’s website https://infostore/saiglobal.com/ or may be viewed at an office of the ACMA on request and subject to licensing conditions.

Note 2: If a radiocommunications device is required to be fitted to, or carried on, an aircraft under any civil aviation instrument, it must also comply with any relevant requirements under that civil aviation instrument.