18Operation of station — additional restrictions in certain frequency bands

18 Operation of station – additional restrictions in certain frequency bands

(1) A person must not operate an amateur station on a frequency within the 3.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz frequency band if the operation would cause a transmission to occur in the area described by the HCIS identifiers in the table in Schedule 3. (2) If a spectrum licence authorises the operation of radiocommunications devices: (a) at one or more frequencies; and (b) within one or more areas; a person must not operate an amateur station: (c) at those frequencies; and (d) within those areas. (3) A person must not operate an amateur station in the RQZ. (4) In this section, RQZ has the meaning given by: (a) the Radiocommunications (Australian Radio Quiet Zone Western Australia) Frequency Band Plan 2023; or (b) if the ACMA makes an instrument to replace that band plan, and that instrument defines the term – that instrument.