Radiocommunications (Australian Radio Quiet Zone Western Australia) Frequency Band Plan 2023 (Cth)

Radiocommunications (Australian Radio Quiet Zone Western Australia) Frequency Band Plan 2023

The Australian Communications and Media Authority makes the following frequency band plan under subsection 32(1) of the Radiocommunications Act 1992.

Dated: 16 March 2023

Chris Jose [signed] Member

Linda Caruso [signed] Member/General Manager

Australian Communications and Media Authority

1 Name This is the Radiocommunications (Australian Radio Quiet Zone Western Australia) Frequency Band Plan 2023.

2 Commencement This instrument commences on 1 April 2023.

Note: This instrument was registered before it commenced. The Federal Register of Legislation may be accessed, free of charge, at www.legislation.gov.au.

3 Authority This instrument is made under subsection 32(1) of the Act.

4 Purpose of the frequency band plan (1) The purpose of this frequency band plan is to establish a radio quiet zone to prevent harmful interference to radio astronomy services. (2) In particular, this frequency band plan makes provision for the purposes for which applicable frequency bands may be used in the RQZ.

5 Interpretation (1) In this instrument, unless the contrary intention appears: applicable frequency band has the meaning given by section 6. CSIRO means the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. GDA94 means the geodetic datum designated as the "Geocentric Datum of Australia (GDA)", gazetted in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. GN 35, on 6 September 1995, as existing on that date. Note 1: The Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. GN 35 is available, free of charge, from the Federal Register of Legislation at www.legislation.gov.au. Note 2: More information on GDA94 can be obtained, free of charge, from Geoscience Australia at www.ga.gov.au and from the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping at www.icsm.gov.au. radio astronomy service has the same meaning as in the spectrum plan. RQZ means that part of the radio quiet zone: (a) described in columns 2 to 4 of item 1 in Schedule 1; and (b) described in columns 2 to 4 of item 2 in Schedule 1. Note 1: A number of other expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following: * ACMA; * apparatus licence; * class licence; * frequency band; * frequency band plan; * interference; * operate; * spectrum plan. Note 2: A number of other expressions used in this instrument may be defined in a determination made under section 64 of the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005. At the time this instrument was made, the following expressions were defined in such a determination: * Act; * harmful interference. (2) In this instrument, unless otherwise specified, a reference to a frequency band includes all frequencies that are greater than but not including the lower frequency, up to and including the higher frequency. Note: This subsection means the lower number in the reference to a frequency band is not included in the frequency band. (3) In this instrument, geographic coordinates describing a point do so with reference to GDA94.