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Subj: [WIA-News] Amateur licence conditions re-make: wha
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From: VK7AX@VK7AX.#ULV.TAS.AUS.OC
To : WIA@WW
Amateur licence conditions re-make: what’s happening?
Date : 05 / 01 / 2015
Author : Roger Harrison - VK2ZRH
Not a lot, yet.
The Amateur Licence Conditions Determination – the LCD
– will sunset on 1 October this year.
For the Amateur Service to continue, the Australian Communications
and Media Authority (ACMA) has to re-make the LCD before then.
The ACMA has quite a lot on its plate right now, with many
other sunsetting regulatory instruments to be re-made,
quite aside from the Spectrum Review report to be completed in
conjunction with the Department of Communications early this year,
and the consequent revision of the Radiocommunications Act.
The Amateur LCD is not a high priority.
In response to the WIA’s submission in July last year,
which set out some 24 issues concerning the Amateur LCD,
the ACMA has advised that it is considering which, if any,
issues may only require minor or procedural amendments that
might be incorporated into the remaking process.
This would enable the ACMA to remake the LCD as a new instrument
before the sunset date, ensuring continuation of the
Amateur Service and early certainty for all licensees.
Those remaining issues raised in the WIA submission that would mean
substantive amendments are likely to necessitate a Regulatory Impact
Statement (RIS), the ACMA has advised, and a round of formal public
consultation, which would be time-consuming and unlikely to be completed
before the October sunset date. The opportunity to address outstanding
issues remains open and the ACMA has advised that it will write to the
WIA after contemplating policy and engineering considerations.
Exactly how the re-make of the LCD will proceed is not known at this stage.
Given the limited time available, the WIA anticipates that that the ACMA
will renew the current LCD with minor amendments and no significant change,
and then later have a review and public consultation process to consider
the raft of issues raised in the WIA’s and other parties’ submissions.
As the ongoing Spectrum Review process may opt do away with apparatus,
class and spectrum licensing to implement parameter-based licensing,
Amateur Service regulation may change considerably, possibly providing an
opportunity to consider a new instrument holistically. However,
considering the time necessary to develop a new Radiocommunications Act from
the ground up, this isn’t likely to emerge for a few years.
The ACMA has published on its website a list of instruments due to sunset
this year, which are open for consultation currently, or where consultation
has ended and the draft instruments are awaiting ACMA decision,
along with instruments that have been remade as a result of consultation.
See the list at this Link.>>
http://acma.gov.au/theACMA/Consultations/Consultations/Sunsetting/sunsetting-issues-for-comment
The Amateur LCD is not currently on this list.
(Sourced from the WIA Website)
http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2015/20150105-1/index.php
(Posted to the Packet Radio Network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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