Radiocommunications Equipment (General) Amendment Rules 2024 (No. 1)

Dated: 21 June 2024

Adam Suckling

[signed]

Member

Michael Brealey

[signed]

Member/General Manager

1  Name

  These are the Radiocommunications Equipment (General) Amendment Rules 2024 (No. 1).

2  Commencement

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Note: The Federal Register of Legislation may be accessed, free of charge, at www.legislation.gov.au.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 156(1) of the Radiocommunications Act 1992.

4  Schedule

  Each instrument that is specified in the Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items of the Schedule, and any other item in the Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

(section 4)

Radiocommunications Equipment (General) Rules 2021 (F2021L00661)

1  Clause 48 of Schedule 5

Omit ‘ETSI EN 301 406 V2.2.2 (2016-09)’, substitute ‘the most recently published version of ETSI EN 301 406’.

2  Clause 48 of Schedule 5 (note)

Repeal the note, substitute:

Note 1: ETSI EN 301 406 is available, free of charge, from the website of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute at www.etsi.org.

Note 2: At the time the Radiocommunications Equipment (General) Amendment Rules 2024 (No. 1) were made, the most recently published version of ETSI EN301 406 consisted of two parts (Part 1 and Part 2).

3  Subclause 50(2) of Schedule 5

Repeal the subclause, substitute:

 (2) The following provision (frequency and power provision) is taken to be included in ETSI 301 406 for the purposes of the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications Equipment Standard:

Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications equipment must operate:

(a) only in the frequency band 1880 MHz to 1900 MHz; and

(b) with a maximum radiated power of:

(i) 36 dBm EIRP, if the equipment is covered by the scope of Part 1 of ETSI EN 301 406; or

(ii) 30 dBm EIRP, if the equipment is covered by the scope of Part 2 of ETSI EN 301 406.