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or injury to, a person; or
          (d) deal with an emergency that involves the risk of substantial damage to, or substantial loss of, property.

      8 Conditions – compliance with standards and equipment rules
      (1) A person must not operate a handphone station under this Class Licence unless the station complies with:
         (a) if the device compliance day for the station occurs before the commencement of Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Act 2020 – any standard applicable to it, as in force on the device compliance day;
         (b) if the device compliance day for the station occurs on or after the day Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Act 2020 commenced – any equipment rules applicable to it, as in force on the device compliance day.
      (2) A person must not operate a handphone station, or a group of handphone stations, under this Class Licence if the electromagnetic energy emitted by the station, or group of stations, exceeds the general public exposure limits specified in the ARPANSA Standard in a place accessible by the public.
      (3) In paragraph (1)(a), standard has the meaning given by section 5 of the Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Act 2020.
Note: Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Act 2020 replaces standards with equipment rules. See also item 42 of that Schedule.

               Schedule 1 Handphone station operational requirements
               (sections 3, 5 and 6)

Item  Carrier frequency (MHz)  Restriction
 1    27.550                   Operation of a handphone station must only employ:
                                   (a) AM with a transmitter power not exceeding 4 watts pZ with a necessary bandwidth not exceeding 6 kHz; or
      27.560                       (b) SSB modulation using USB with a transmitter power not exceeding 12 watts pX with a necessary bandwidth not exceeding 3 kHz.

      27.580                   A handphone station operating on carrier frequency 27.580 MHz must only be used for bushfire fighting purposes.

      27.590

      27.620

      27.660

      27.760
 2    27.230                   Operation of a handphone station:
                                   (a) must only employ AM with a transmitter power not exceeding 700 milliwatts pZ with a necessary bandwidth not exceeding 6 kHz; and
      27.240                       (b) may be subject to interference from:
                                     (i) a station to which the Radiocommunications (Citizen Band Radio Stations) Class Licence 2015 applies; or
      27.250                         (ii) a transmitter operating in the frequency band designated for industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) applications.

      27.260

      27.270

      27.280

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