The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 1999

PART I INTERPRETATION

In this Schedule–

“BABT” means the British Approvals Board for Telecommunications(1);

“BTx” means Base Transmit, the frequency on which a base station transmits and a user station receives;

“MPTs 1324 and 1326” means Department of Trade and Industry Performance Specifications 1324 and 1326 referred to in Part IV of this Schedule;

“MTx” means Mobile Transmit, the frequency on which a user station transmits and a base station receives;

“NTR 13” means Designation No. 95/037 NTR 13 given under section 22(6) of the 1984 Act by the Secretary of State on 14th December 1995;

“prescribed apparatus” means a user station as defined below;

“relevant network” means a telecommunication system consisting exclusively of stations established and used under and in accordance with a licence, which has been granted under section 1(1) of the 1949 Act by the Secretary of State and is of a type specified in Part III of this Schedule; and

“user station” means a mobile station for wireless telegraphy designed or adapted–

(a)

to be connected by wireless telegraphy to one or more relevant networks; and

(b)

to be used solely for the purpose of sending and receiving messages conveyed by a relevant network by means of wireless telegraphy.

(1)

BABT was appointed by the Secretary of State on 10th September 1990 pursuant to section 25 of the 1984 Act for the purpose of approving telecommunication apparatus under section 22 of that Act.