4Definitions

4 Definitions

In this instrument: Act means the Radiocommunications Act 1992.

ARPANSA Standard means the Radiation Protection Standard for Limiting Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields – 100 kHz to 300 GHz (2021), or any standard published as a replacement of that standard, by the Australia Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency.

Note: The ARPANSA Standard is available, free of charge, from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency website at www.arpansa.gov.au.

Note: authorised person means:

(a) a screening authority; or
(b) a screening officer; or
(c) a registered training organisation; or
(d) a person employed by or contracted to a registered training organisation.

Note: body scanner means a scanner that is capable of detecting metallic and non-metallic items on a person by using millimetre-wave radio frequency technology.

Note: A body scanner is, or includes, a radiocommunications transmitter.

EIRP means equivalent isotropically radiated power.

registered training organisation has the meaning given by the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011.

screening authority has the meaning given by the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004.

screening officer has the meaning given by the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004.

security controlled airport has the meaning given by the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004.

Note: Gazette notices of declarations of security controlled airports are published on the Federal Register of Legislation.

VET course has the meaning given by the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011.

Note 1: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including:

(a) interference;