Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1992 - SECT 38

             (1)  On receiving a notice designating a specified part of the spectrum to be allocated by issuing spectrum licences, the ACMA must, by written instrument, prepare a conversion plan that sets out the procedures and timetable for issuing spectrum licences to replace existing apparatus licences that authorise operation of radiocommunications devices:

                     (a)  at frequencies within that part of the spectrum; and

                     (b)  within the area or areas specified in the notice.

             (2)  The conversion plan need not require spectrum licences issued in accordance with it to apply to the whole of the area or areas to which the plan applies.

             (3)  The conversion plan may contain such other additional matters as the ACMA thinks fit.

             (4)  The conversion plan must not be inconsistent with:

                     (a)  the spectrum plan; or

                     (b)  a frequency band plan that relates, wholly or partly, to the part of the spectrum to which the conversion plan relates.

             (5)  This section does not apply if there are no apparatus licences to which such a conversion plan would apply.