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ensure that only appropriately licensed persons access the station to transmit a signal to another amateur station.
 (3) In this section:
appropriately licensed person means a person holding a licence that authorises that person to operate a station using the frequency and emission mode of the station being accessed.
Note A licensee who operates a station connected to the public telecommunications network is not required to authorise other persons to operate the station for the purpose of accessing the station.
11B Restrictions on connection from a public telecommunications network
 (1) This subsection applies to:
      (aa) an amateur licence (amateur foundation station);
 (a) an amateur licence (amateur standard station); and
 (b) an amateur licence (amateur advanced station).
 (2) If:
 (a) a person is using a thing (the item) that is connected to a public telecommunications network; and
 (b) the licensee connects the item to a station authorised by the licence, whether manually or automatically;
the licensee must advise the person:
 (c) that the person's communications may be overheard or received by other persons; and
 (d) to disconnect the item if the person does not wish to continue with the connection of the item to the station.
Note It is an offence, under subsection 7 (1) of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 to intercept a communication passing over a telecommunications system. Under subsection 6 (1) of that Act, interception of a communication passing over a telecommunications system consists of listening to or recording, by any means, such a communication in its passage over that telecommunications system without the knowledge of the person making the communication.  Under subsection 5 (1) of that Act, a "telecommunications system" is that part of a telecommunications network that is within Australia.
Part 3 Conditions for amateur licence (amateur advanced station)
12 Conditions
  Every amateur licence (amateur advanced station) is subject to the additional conditions in this Part relating to the operation by the licensee under the licence of the station.
13 Permitted frequency bands
  The licensee must only operate an amateur advanced station on a frequency that:
 (a) is within in a frequency band mentioned in column 1 of an item in the table in Part 1 of Schedule 2;
 (b) if a transmission made using the station would occur in an area specified in column 1 of an item in the table in Part 2 of Schedule 2 – is not within the frequency range specified in column 2 of the item.

            Note Despite this section and Schedule 2, the operation of an advanced amateur station is not authorised in the frequency bands and areas set out in Schedule 5: see section 15A.
14 Emissions from an amateur advanced station
  The licensee must not