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Schedule 5—Sample spectrum licence
(section 22)
This Schedule sets out a sample spectrum licence, and the conditions and statements that may be included in a spectrum licence issued in the 850/900 MHz band (other than the downshift metropolitan licence or the downshift regional licence), in accordance with this instrument.

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY

Radiocommunications Act 1992

Sample Spectrum Licence for the 850/900 MHz band

Prepared under section 61 of the Radiocommunications Act 1992 ('the Act') in accordance with the
Radiocommunications Spectrum Marketing Plan (850/900 MHz Band) 2021

This licence is issued under Part 3.2 of the Act to the person named at Item 1 of Part 1, Licence Schedule 1.

   1. The person named at Item 1 of Part 1, Licence Schedule 1 ('the licensee'), or a person authorised under subsection 68(1) of the Act, is authorised, under this licence, to operate radiocommunications devices in accordance with the following:

      (a) the Act;
      (b) the core conditions set out in Licence Schedule 2;
      (c) the statutory conditions set out in Licence Schedule 3;
      (d) the other conditions set out in Licence Schedule 4.

   2. This licence comes into force at the start of the date shown at Item 5 of Part 1, Licence Schedule 1 and remains in force until the end of the date shown at Item 7 of Part 1, Licence Schedule 1.
   3. The statements in this licence that relate to renewal of the licence are set out in Part 3, Licence Schedule 1.
Definitions
   4. In this licence, unless the contrary intention appears:

   AAS means an antenna system where the amplitude and/or phase between multiple antenna elements is continually adjusted, resulting in an antenna pattern that varies in response to short term changes in the radio environment.

   Act means the Radiocommunications Act 1992, as in force from time to time.

   area-adjacent spectrum licences means spectrum licences that authorise the operation of radiocommunications devices in the geographic areas adjacent to each of the geographic areas described in Tables 1 and 2 of Part 2 of Licence Schedule 1.

   frequency-adjacent spectrum licences means spectrum licences that authorise the operation of radiocommunications devices in the frequency bands adjacent to each of the frequency bands described in Table 1 of Part 2 of Licence Schedule 1.

   harmful interference has the same meaning as in the spectrum plan made under subsection 30(1) of the Act, as in force from time to time.

   HCIS identifier means an identifier used to describe a geographic area in the HCIS.

   Hierarchical Cell Identification Scheme or HCIS means the cell grouping hierarchy scheme used to describe geographic areas in the Australian Spectrum Map Grid 2012 published by the ACMA, as existing from time