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Radiocommunications (Amendment) Act 1992

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Radiocommunications (Amendment) Act 1992

No. 19 of 1992.
Certified on: 15.4.92

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

1. Interpretation (Amendment of Section 1).
2. Exemptions (Amendment of Section 4).

AN ACT

entitled

Radiocommunications (Amendment) Act 1992,

Being an Act to amend the Radiocommunications Act (Chapter 152),

MADE by the National Parliament to come into operation in accordance with a notice in the National Gazette by the Head of State, acting with, and in accordance with, the advice of the Minister.

1. INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1).

Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended -

(a) by inserting after the definition of "the Board" the following:-

• "'broadcast-satellite service' means a radiocommunication service in which transmissions or retransmissions (whether sound transmissions, television transmissions or other transmissions) by space stations are intended for direct reception (whether individual reception or community reception) by the general public;"; and

(b) by inserting after the definition of "Corporation" the following:-

• "'earth station' means a station located either on the earth's surface, or within the major portion of the earth's atmosphere, and intended for communication with one or more stations of the same kind by means of one or more reflecting satellites or other objects in space;"; and

(c) by inserting after the definition of "Managing Director" the following:-

• "'Radio Regulations' means the Radio Regulations published by the International Telecommunication Union in pursuance of a recommendation of the World Administrative Radio Conference at Geneva, 1967, as amended from time to time, and includes the appendices to those Radio Regulations and any additional Regulations;"; and

(d) by repealing the definition of "radiocommunication" and replacing it with the following:-

• "'radiocommunication' means any transmissions, emission or reception of signs, signals, impulses, writings, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by means of electromagnetic waves of frequences arbitrarily lower than 3000 GHz propagated in space without artificial guide;"; and

(e) by inserting after the definition of "the regulations" the following;-

• "'space station' means a station located on an object which is beyond, is intended to be beyond, or has been beyond the major portion of the earth's atmosphere and includes a satellite;"; and

(f) by repealing the definition of "station" and replacing it with the following:-

• "'station' means one or more transmitters or receivers or a combination of transmitters and receivers, including the accessory equipment, necessary at one location for carrying on a radiocommunication service;"; and

(g) by adding the following subsection:-

• "(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, any words or phrases used in this Act and not defined in this Act and used in the Radio Regulations have the same meaning or interpretation as given to them in the Radio Regulations."

2. EXEMPTIONS (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 4).

Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by adding the following subsection:-

"(2) The exemptions granted by Subsection (1) do not apply to apparatus that is primarily intended for the reception of broadcast-satellite services.".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Radiocommunications (Amendment) Act 1992 which has been made by the National Parliament.

Clerk of the National Parliament.

I hereby certify that the Radiocommunications (Amendment) Act 1992was made by the National Parliament on 4 March 1992.

Speaker of the National Parliament.