Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027:reg:5:p26
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 26/117)
Character Range: 3569240–3572133

maintain a telecommunication or radionavigation service, and whose approval is not suspended or revoked.
technical specification, for a telecommunication service or facility, or a radionavigation service or facility, is a detailed description, that may use technical terms and concepts, of:
 (a) the way in which the service or facility operates and performs its functions; and
 (b) the technical standards to which the service or facility has been designed and manufactured.
Example: The technical specification of a particular kind of radionavigation service may include its frequency band, channel spacing, frequency tolerance, effective radiated transmitter power, antenna type and gain, effective radiated power and radial phase modulation.
technician means a person who is engaged by a service provider to do 1 or more of the following:
 (a) operate a facility;
 (b) maintain a facility;
 (c) conduct measurements of the performance of, and calibration of, a facility during a flight inspection.
 (2) For this Part:
 (a) a telecommunication or radionavigation service is provided using 1 or more facilities at 1 or more locations, each facility consisting of:
 (i) 1 item of equipment; or
 (ii) items of interconnected equipment;
  at a particular location; and
 (b) a service is interrupted if, during its operating hours:
 (i) it is not operating because it has failed or has been suspended; or
 (ii) it is operating outside its technical specification.

171.012  Meaning of telecommunication service
 (1) In this Part, telecommunication service means any of the following:
 (a) 1 or both of the following, within the meaning given for each in Volume II of Annex 10 to the Chicago Convention:
 (i) an aeronautical broadcasting service;
 (ii) an aeronautical fixed service;
 (b) an aeronautical mobile service, within the meaning given in Volume II of Annex 10 to the Chicago Convention, that is used to support an air traffic service of a kind mentioned in Annex 11 to the Chicago Convention;
 (c) any system that processes or displays air traffic control data.
 (2) However, none of the following is a telecommunication service:
 (a) an aerodrome weather information broadcast service (within the meaning in AIP);
 (b) a certified air/ground radio service at an aerodrome;
 (c) a frequency confirmation system at an aerodrome;
 (d) pilot activated lighting (within the meaning in AIP) at an aerodrome;
 (e) a UNICOM service (within the meaning in AIP).

171.015  Person not to provide service without approval
 (1) A person that is not a service provider must not provide a telecommunication or radionavigation service.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
 (2) An offence against subregulation (1) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.

171.017  Issue of Manual of Standards
 (1) CASA may issue a Manual of Standards for this Part