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10 Condition – compliance with particular documents

Condition (1) A person must not operate a radiocommunications device that is part of a major coast A station if: (a) the station includes medium frequency or high frequency international maritime mobile service equipment; and (b) one or more of the documents specified in subsection (2), as existing on the device compliance day for the station, was expressed to apply to the station; and (c) the station does not comply with the document, as existing on the device compliance day for the station.

Note 1: Under Part 4.1 of the Act, a person may be prohibited from operating a maritime coast station, including a station not covered by subsection (1), if the station does not comply with requirements set out in equipment rules made under section 156 of the Act.

Note 2: A maritime coast licence does not authorise operation of a radiocommunications receiver that is part of a major coast A station. However, operation of a radiocommunications receiver in contravention of this condition may be a contravention of section 113 of the Act, or may result in suspension or cancellation of the maritime coast licence.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), the following documents are specified: (a) Appendix 2 of the Radio Regulations, Table of transmitter frequency tolerances; (b) Appendix 3 of the Radio Regulations, Maximum permitted power levels for unwanted emissions in the spurious domain; (c) Appendix 3 of the Radio Regulations, Frequencies and channelling arrangements in the high-frequency bands for the maritime mobile service.

Note: The Radio Regulations are available, free of charge, from the International Telecommunication Union’s website at www.itu.int.

Definitions (3) In this section, device compliance day, for a major coast A station, means: (a) if the station was manufactured in Australia and paragraph (c) does not apply – the day it was manufactured; or (b) if the station was imported and paragraph (c) does not apply – the day it was imported; or (c) if the station was manufactured in Australia or imported, and altered or modified in a material respect in Australia after it was manufactured or imported – the day it was so altered or modified.