- RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1983 No. 136, 1983
- RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT
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RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1983 No. 136, 1983
RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT
An Act to enact transitional provisions, to repeal certain Acts, and to make
amendments of certain Acts, consequent upon the enactment of the
Radiocommunications Act 1983
(Assented to 22 December 1983)
1. This Act may be cited as the Radiocommunications (Transitional Provisions
and Consequential Amendments) Act 1983.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the date fixed for the purposes of
sub-section 2 (2) of the Radiocommunications Act 1983.
3. The Acts specified in the Schedule are amended as set out in the
Schedule.
4. The following Acts are repealed:
Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905
Wireless Telegraphy Act 1915
Wireless Telegraphy Act 1919
Wireless Telegraphy Act 1936
Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967
Wireless Telegraphy Regulations Act 1970
Wireless Telegraphy Act 1973
Wireless Telegraphy Amendment Act 1980
Radiocommunications Licence Fees Act 1982
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not been repealed, but such a licence shall not be renewed.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.
SCHEDULE Section 3
CONSEQUENTAL AMENDMENTS
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Acts Amendments
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Australian Shipping Schedule -
Commission Act 1956 Omit "Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1950"
Broadcasting and Television After Part I, insert the following Part:
Act 1942 "PART IA - PROHIBITION OF UNAUTHORIZED OPERATION
OF TRANSMITTERS FOR BROADCASTING AND
TELEVISION
Unauthorized operation of certain transmitters
prohibited
"6A. (1) A person shall not, without reasonable
excuse, operate a radiocommunications transmitter
for the purpose of the transmission to the general
public of broadcasting programs or television
programs except as authorized by or under this Act
or the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act
1983.
"(2) Without limiting the generality of the
expression 'reasonable excuse' in sub-section (1),
it is a reasonable excuse if a person operated a
radiocommunications transmitter in the honest
belief that that operation was reasonably
necessary for the purpose of -
(a) securing the safety of a vessel or aircraft
that was in danger;
(b) dealing with an emergency involving a serious
threat to the environment; or
(c) dealing with an emergency involving risk of
death of, or injury to, persons, or risk of
substantial loss of, or substantial damage to,
property.
"(3) The Radiocommunications Act 1983 applies in
relation to an offence against sub-section (1) by
virtue of sub-section 132 (1) (in this sub-section
referred to as a 'relevant offence') as if a
reference in that Act (other than section 83)
to an offence against that Act were a reference to
a relevant offence.
"(4) An expression used in this section and in the
Radiocommunications Act 1983 has the same meaning
in this section as in that Act.".
Sections 89D and 112 -
Repeal the sections.
Sub-section 126 (7) -
Omit "Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905", substitute
"Radiocommunications Act 1983".
Section 130 -
Repeal the section.
Sub-section 134(1) -
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