Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L01648:reg:4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L01648
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 26492–29205

4  Condition – measurements or calculations of electromagnetic energy – higher risk stations
Application
 (1) This clause applies in relation to an amateur station other than a station mentioned in subclause 3(1) or 3(2).
General requirement to measure or calculate radiofrequency fields
 (2) Subject to subclauses (4), (6), (7) and (8), a person must not operate an amateur station unless the person has measured or calculated the radiofrequency fields produced by the station in accordance with one or more of the following:
 (a) if AS/NZS 2772.2 applies in relation to the station – AS/NZS 2772.2;
 (b) if C95.3 applies in relation to the station – C95.3;
 (c) if IEC 62232 applies in relation to the station – IEC 62232.
Presumption
 (3) A person is presumed, unless the contrary is proved, not to have operated an amateur station in contravention of the condition in subclause 4(2) if:
 (a) the station is, at the time of operation, located at a site that has more than one station; and
 (b) the person has made the measurements or calculations specified in subclause 4(2), for all the stations at the site, as a whole; and
 (c) those measurements or calculations are to the effect that the operation of all those stations, as a whole, would comply with subclause 4(2); and
 (d) the person has retained possession of a document setting out those measurements or calculations at all times since those measurements or calculations were made.
Measurements and calculations before 1 March 2003
 (4) A person is taken to have made the measurement or calculation mentioned in subclause (2) in relation to an amateur station (the relevant station) if:
 (a) at any time before 1 March 2003, the person held a transmitter licence that authorised the operation of the relevant station; and
 (b) before 1 March 2003, the person possessed a document to the effect that:
 (i) the radiofrequency field produced by the station under the transmitter licence did not exceed the exposure levels mentioned in sections 6.3, 6.7 and 6.8 of AS/NZS 2772.1, as existing at the time the document was created, at a place accessible to a member of the general public; and
 (ii) the radiofrequency field was measured in accordance with AS 2772.2, as existing at the time the document was created; and
 (iii) the radiofrequency field was calculated using a model or method that was derived from the mathematical formulas mentioned in Appendix B to AS 2772.2, as existing at the time the document was created; and
 (c) the person continues to possess that document.
 (5) For the purposes of subclause (4):
AS 2772.2 means the document titled 'AS 2772.2–1988 Radiofrequency radiation Part 2: Principles and methods of measurement – 300 kHz