Licence Area Plan – Armidale Radio

This plan for broadcasting services in the Armidale area of New South Wales is made under subsection 26(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

Seven national radio broadcasting services, two commercial radio broadcasting services and three open narrowcasting radio services are to be available in the area described at Attachment 1.1 to this plan with the use of the broadcasting services bands. The characteristics, including technical specifications, of the services that are to be available in the area described at Attachment 1.1 are set out in Schedule One and Attachments 1.2 - 1.13 to this plan.

One community radio broadcasting service is to be available in the area described at Attachment 2.1 to this plan with the use of the broadcasting services bands. The characteristics, including technical specifications, of the service that is to be available in the area described at Attachment 2.1 are set out in Schedule Two and Attachment 2.2 to this plan.

In this plan, unless the contrary intention appears:

a reference to a schedule or an attachment is a reference to a schedule or an attachment to this plan; and

a reference to the Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017 is a reference to that instrument as in force from time to time; and

a reference to any other legislative instrument is a reference to that other instrument as in force from time to time; and

a reference to any other kind of instrument or writing is a reference to that other kind of instrument or writing as in force or in existence at the time the reference was included in this plan.

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.

All Commonwealth Acts and legislative instruments are registered on the Federal Register of Legislation and accessible free of charge.

For an area mentioned in clause (2) or clause (3), the Schedule mentioned in that clause specifies the radiocommunications transmitters planned for the provision of broadcasting services in that area by reference to:

the Attachment that determines the technical specifications for each transmitter; and

the frequency on which each transmitter is planned to operate and the approximate geographic area each transmitter is planned to serve; and

the technical specification number for each transmitter and, for a transmitter planned for the provision of a service under a broadcasting services bands licence, the licence number of that licence.

Each Attachment, other than an attachment that describes an area within which broadcasting services are to be available, determines the following technical specifications for a radiocommunications transmitter specified a Schedule:

subject to clause (7), a description, and geographic coordinates, of the location (nominal location) from where the radiocommunications transmitter must be operated;

the frequency on which the transmitter must be operated;

the frequency band containing that frequency, and the mode of transmission the transmitter must use;

the required polarisation of the transmission made by the transmitter;

the maximum antenna height for the transmitter;

the maximum effective radiated power (ERP) or cymomotive force (CMF), in each specified direction, of transmissions made by the transmitter;

any special conditions that apply to the operation of the transmitter;

any circumstances that must exist for the transmitter to be able to be operated, or that prohibit the transmitter from being operated.

A radiocommunications transmitter may be operated from a location other than a nominal location (alternative site) if operation from the alternative site complies with any requirements set out for the transmitter and for the operation of the transmitter in guidelines made under section 33 of the Act in relation to operation from an alternative site.

Guidelines under section 33 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 are available, free of charge, from the Federal Register of Legislation at www.legislation.gov.au. At the time this clause commenced, the Broadcasting Services (Technical Planning) Guidelines 2017 were the guidelines in force under section 33.

In this plan, radiocommunications transmitter has the meaning given by the Radiocommunications Act 1992.