New Zealand Legislation: Acts

48 Creation of spectrum licence by manager

• (1) Where a manager intends to reserve to himself or herself or to grant to any other person—

  • (a) the right to transmit on a frequency band, and the right to have no harmful interference from co-channel emissions in the protection area on the frequency band within the range of frequencies specified in the manager's record of management rights; or

  • (b) the right to transmit on a frequency band within the range of frequencies specified in the manager's record of management rights; or

  • (c) the right to have no harmful interference from co-channel emissions in the protection area on a frequency band within the range of frequencies specified in the manager's record of management rights,—

  that manager may execute for the purposes of registration a spectrum licence in a form prescribed for spectrum licences granted or reserved under this section.

  (2) A spectrum licence is not valid until that licence is registered.

  (3) Any spectrum licence created under subsection (1)(b) may be specified as a general user spectrum licence for the purposes of section 55A.

  Section 48: substituted, on 12 October 2001, by section 23 of the Radiocommunications Amendment Act 2000 (2000 No 8).