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condition specified in the licence, the condition specified in the licence applies.

5 Interpretation

    (1) In this Determination, unless the contrary intention appears:

Act means the Radiocommunications Act 1992.
AMSA means the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
    distress signal means a signal indicating that a mobile unit, or a person, is threatened by grave and imminent danger and requires immediate assistance.
    licensee means the holder of a major coast receive licence and includes any person authorised by the licensee to operate a station under the licence.
mobile unit means a ship, aircraft or other vehicle.
    safety signal means a signal concerning safety or navigation or providing an important meteorological warning.
    urgency signal means a very urgent signal concerning the safety of a mobile unit or a person.
    Note: Unless the contrary intention appears, terms used in this Determination that are defined in the Act or in the Radiocommunications (Interpretation) Determination 2015 (Interpretation Determination) have the same meaning as in the Act or Interpretation Determination.
Terms defined in the Act include:
         * qualified operator
         * standard
     Terms defined in the Interpretation Determination include:
         * major coast receive licence
         * major coast receive station
         * public correspondence

    (2) In this Determination, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to another legislative instrument is a reference to that other legislative instrument 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 Legislative Instruments Act 2003 for the application of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 to legislative instruments.
    Note 2: All Commonwealth Acts and legislative instruments are available on the ComLaw website at http://www.comlaw.gov.au.

6 Conditions

    For paragraph 107(1)(f) of the Act, every major coast receive licence is subject to the conditions in this Determination relating to the operation of any major coast receive station under the licence by the licensee.
7 Technical performance of a station
    (1) A licensee must not operate a major coast receive station, unless the operation of the station complies with subsections (2) and (3).

    (2) The major coast receive station must comply with the requirements in any standard (applicable standard), specified in Part 1 of the Schedule, that applies to it.

    Note: This provision is not intended to limit the operation of paragraph 107(1)(d) of the Act, which provides that an apparatus licence is subject to a condition that any radiocommunications device operated under the licence must comply with all the standards applicable to it.

    (3) The major coast receive station must comply with the requirements in any document (applicable document), specified in Part 2 of the Schedule, that applies to it.

    (4) If the major coast receive station