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3.2 National broadcasting services
  The licensee must only operate the broadcast service station:
 (a) to provide national broadcasting services; or
 (b) for engineering test transmissions.

Part 4 Conditions for broadcasting licence (narrowcasting service)

4.1 Conditions
 (1) Subject to subsection (3), for paragraph 107 (1) (f) of the Act, every broadcasting licence (narrowcasting service) is subject to the conditions in this Part relating to the operation of any narrowcasting service station under the licence by the licensee.
 (2) The conditions in this Part are additional to the conditions in Part 2.
 (3) Sections 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6 do not apply in relation to a narrowcasting service station operated by a licensee to provide a low power open narrowcasting service.
4.3 Operating requirements — open narrowcasting services
  If the licensee operates a narrowcasting service station, the licensee:
 (a) must only operate the station to provide an open narrowcasting service; and
 (b) must commence the service by the later of:
 (i) 6 months after the licence is issued; or
 (ii) the time specified by the ACMA in a written notice to the licensee; and
 (c) must comply with the start up procedures in Part 2 of the Technical Planning Guidelines as if a reference in the Part to a 'licensee' were a reference to a 'holder of a licence to which section 4.3 of the Radiocommunications Licence Conditions (Broadcasting Licence) Determination 2015 applies'.
4.4 Operating requirements — open narrowcasting services in the AM radio band
      (1)     This section applies if the licensee operates a narrowcasting service station on a frequency in the AM radioband to provide an open narrowcasting radio service.
      (2)     The licensee must:
        (a)   operate the station:
             (i)     if a licence area plan has planned the open narrowcasting service — in a manner that complies with the cymomotive force limits mentioned in the technical specifications for the service included in the plan; and
             (ii)  in a manner that limits interference caused by the propagation of sky waves to broadcasting services provided by other stations operating on a frequency in the AM radio band; and
        (b)   comply with guidelines 11 – 13 (inclusive) in Part 3 and guideline 21 in Part 5 of the Technical Planning Guidelines, as if a reference in those guidelines to:
                (i)                 a 'licensee' were a reference to a 'licensee mentioned in subsection 4.4(1) of the Radiocommunications Licence Conditions (Broadcasting Licence) Determination 2015';
                (ii)               the 'licence area' were a reference to the 'coverage area', 'coverage radius' or 'licence area' of the station authorised by the licensee's licence; and
                (iii)            matters specified in the LAP or DRCP were a reference to those same matters as specified in the licence conditions or advisory notes in the licensee's licence authorising