Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00260:reg:5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00260
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5
Character Range: 880–3111

5  Interpretation
  In this instrument, unless the contrary intention appears:
  class licence means the Radiocommunications (Communication with Space Object) Class Licence 2025, as in force from time to time.
Note 1: For references to Commonwealth Acts, see section 10 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901; and see also subsection 13(1) of the Legislation Act 2003 for the application of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 to legislative instruments.
Note 2: A number of other expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:
           (a) Australia;
           (b) foreign space object;
           (c) radio emission;
           (d) space object.
Note 3: Other expressions used in this instrument may be defined in a determination made under subsection 64(1) of the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005, that applies to this instrument, including the following:
           (a) Act;
           (b) space station;
           (c) station.

  6  Application of Act outside Australia — foreign space objects operating in frequency range mentioned in class licence
  The Act applies outside Australia in relation to a foreign space object if:
 (a) the foreign space object is owned, controlled or operated by or for a corporation mentioned in column 2 of an item in Schedule 1; and
 (b) a space station on the foreign space object is operating in a frequency range mentioned in paragraph 8(a) or (b) of the class licence to transmit radio emissions to, or receive radio emissions from, a station inside Australia.
Note: Under section 5 of the Act, a foreign space object is defined to mean a space object (also defined in section 5 of the Act) that is not an Australian space object. An Australian space object is defined in section 5 to mean a space object that the ACMA, by legislative instrument, determines to be an Australian space object for the purposes of the Act (see the Radiocommunications (Australian Space Objects) Determination 2025).
           Schedule 1 Owners, controllers or operators of foreign space objects operating in a frequency range mentioned in the class licence
(paragraph 6 (a))

Item  Corporation owning, controlling or operating foreign space object