Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00058:reg:5:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00058
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 1/11)
Character Range: 1009–3879

5  Interpretation
 (1) In this instrument:
850/900 MHz band means the following parts of the spectrum:
 (a) 859 MHz to 869 MHz;
 (b) 935 MHz to 960 MHz.
1800 MHz band means the part of the spectrum from 1805 MHz to 1880 MHz.
2.1 GHz band means the part of the spectrum from 2110 MHz to 2170 MHz.
3.4 GHz to 4 GHz band means the part of the spectrum from 3.4 GHz to 4 GHz.
ACMA means the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
Act means the Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Act 1983.
Note: Section 3 of the Act provides that the Radiocommunications Taxes Collection Act 1983 is incorporated and shall be read as one with the Act.
aeronautical assigned system station has the same meaning as in:
 (a) the Radiocommunications Licence Conditions (Aeronautical Licence) Determination 2015; or
 (b) if a later determination replaces that instrument and defines the expression – that later determination.

            Note: The Radiocommunications Licence Conditions (Aeronautical Licence) Determination 2015 is a legislative instrument and is available, free of charge, from the Federal Register of Legislation at www.legislation.gov.au.
AM band means the part of the spectrum from 525 kHz to 1606.5 kHz.
ASMG means the Australian Spectrum Map Grid 2012, published by the ACMA on its website.
Note: The ASMG is available, free of charge, on the ACMA's website at www.acma.gov.au.
associated with a commercial broadcasting licence: see subsection (2).
Australia has the same meaning as in the Radiocommunications Act 1992.
Note: The ACMA maintains a map of what constitutes Australia under the Radiocommunications Act 1992. The map is available, free of charge, on the ACMA's website at www.acma.gov.au. It is located with the Register of Radiocommunications Licences on that website.
Australian Map Grid means the map projection based on the Australian geodetic datum defined in Gazette No. 84 of 6 October 1966 at page 4984.
Note 1: Gazette No. 84 is available, free of charge, from the Federal Register of Legislation at www.legislation.gov.au. The Australian geodetic datum defined in that Gazette is known as AGD66.
Note 2: For more information about the Australian Map Grid, see the website of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping at www.icsm.gov.au.
Australian waters means the offshore areas in respect of the States and Territories.
base station means a station established at a fixed location specified in a licence.
CDMA technology means radiocommunications technology that uses code-division multiple access.
density type for a spectrum access: see Schedule 3.
eligible person: see subsection (3).
FM band means the part of the spectrum from 87.5 MHz to 108 MHz.
harmonised government spectrum area licence means a land mobile licence that authorises a person to operate a radiocommunications transmitter both:
 (a) in:
 (i)