Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS REGULATIONS 1993 - REG 3

         (1)   In these Regulations:

"Act " means the Radiocommunications Act 1992 .

authorised person means:

                (a)    the Chair; or

               (b)    a person appointed under regulation 42 for the purposes of the provision in which that expression appears.

"Chair" has the meaning given by section 3 of the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005 .

"Distress, Urgency, Alarm and Safety Signals" means the Distress Signal, Urgency Signal, Alarm Signal and Safety Signal, within the meaning of the Articles in which the respective Signals are mentioned, of the Radio Regulations published by the International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, as in force from time to time under the Telecommunication Convention.

"examination" means an examination conducted under Part 4.

"facsimile" includes any form of communication that is automatically reproduced onto paper.

"Interpretation Determination" means the Radiocommunications (Interpretation) Determination 2000 .

"penalty" , in relation to an offence of a kind mentioned in section 315 of the Act, means a penalty of an amount worked out in accordance with that section.

"SOLAS" means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, done at London on 1 November 1974 and its Protocol of 1978, done at London on 17 February 1978, both as in force on the day on which this definition takes effect.

"Telecommunication Convention" means the International Telecommunication Convention done at Nairobi on 6 November 1982.

Note    The following terms used in these Regulations are defined in section 5 of the Act: ACMA, aircraft, certificate, device, inspector, interference, licence, licensee, radiocommunication, transmitter and transmitter licence.

         (2)   Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in these Regulations and in the Interpretation Determination has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Interpretation Determination.

Note    Several terms used in these Regulations are defined in the Interpretation Determination. Those terms include the following:

*       maritime coast station

*       message

*       ship

*       ship station Class B

*       ship station Class C

*       station.