Commonwealth Numbered Acts

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1983 No. 136, 1983 - SECT 5

5. (1) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905 by this
Act, in relation to a licence in force under that Act immediately before the
date of commencement of this Act, that Act continues in force as if it had not
been repealed, but such a licence shall not be renewed.

(2) Parts VI and VII of the Radiocommunications Act 1983 do not apply to
receivers and transmitters established, erected, maintained or used by virtue
of a licence referred to in sub-section (1).

(3) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare that a
certificate issued under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905 in relation to a
licence or a class of licences under that Act specified in the declaration
shall be deemed for the purposes of the Radiocommunications Act 1983 to be a
certificate of proficiency in relation to such classes of licences under the
Radiocommunications Act 1983 as are specified in the declaration.

(4) A declaration under sub-section (3) may specify a date beyond which the
certificate concerned shall cease to be in force.

(5) A reference in any law of the Commonwealth, other than the
Radiocommunications Act 1983 or this section, to a licence under that Act
shall be construed as if it included a reference to a licence referred to in
sub-section (1).

(6) Except so far as the contrary intention appears, an expression used in
this section and in the Radiocommunications Act 1983 has the same meaning in
this section as in that Act.