Wireless Telegraphy (Wireless Public Address System) Regulations, 2006
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

num: 2
paragraphs: (1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:
“Act of 1926” means the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926 (No. 45 of 1926);
“Act of 1972” means the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1972 (No. 5 of 1972);
“Act of 2002” means the Communications Regulation Act, 2002 (No. 20 of 2002);
“Apparatus” means apparatus capable of emitting and receiving, or emitting only or receiving only, over paths which are not provided by any material substance constructed or arranged for that purpose, electric, magnetic or electro-magnetic energy, of a frequency not exceeding 3 million megahertz, whether or not such energy serves the conveying (whether they are actually received or not) of communications, sounds, signs, visual images or signals or the actuation or control of machinery or apparatus, and includes any part of such apparatus, or any article capable of being used as part of such apparatus, and also includes any other apparatus which is associated with, or electrically coupled to, apparatus capable of so emitting such energy;
“Authorisation Regulations” means the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Authorisation) Regulations, 2003 (S.I. 306 of 2003);
“Commission” means the Commission for Communications Regulation established under the Act of 2002;
“Harmful interference” means interference which endangers the functioning of a radionavigation service or other safety service or which otherwise seriously degrades obstructs, or repeatedly interrupts any lawfully operating radiocommunications service;
“Licence” means a Licence under section 5 of the Act of 1926;
“Licensee” means the holder of a Licence;
“Radiocommunications Service” means a service involving the transmission, emission, and/or reception of radio waves specified for specific telecommunications purposes;
“Radionavigation service” means a service involving the determination of the position velocity and/or other characteristics of an object, or the obtaining of information related to these parameters, by means of the propagation properties of radio waves and used for the purposes of navigation, including obstruction warning;
“Wireless Public Address System” means a system that is to be used for unabridged wireless retransmission of audio from a public address system that is associated with a public event;
“WPAS” means a Wireless Public Address System
“WPAS service” means a service comprising the unabridged wireless retransmission of audio from a public address system that is associated with a public event and which is only available on a non commercial basis (for local community users). A WPAS service shall not be available for reception on standard domestic broadcast receivers;
“WPAS Station” means a transmitter, including the accessory equipment necessary at one location for carrying on a WPAS service;
(2) In these Regulations unless the contrary intention appears:
(a) a reference to an enactment or regulation may be construed as a reference to the enactment or regulation as amended or extended by or under any subsequent enactment or regulation;