Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1992 - SECT 179

Amnesty period

  (1)   The ACMA may, by notifiable instrument, declare that, for the purposes of subsection   (2), a specified period is an amnesty period for a specified permanent ban.

Amnesty

  (2)   If:

  (a)   a permanent ban on equipment of a particular kind is in force; and

  (b)   an amnesty period has been declared under subsection   (1) for the ban;

then:

  (c)   the owner of equipment of that kind may, during the amnesty period for the ban, agree with the ACMA (on behalf of the Commonwealth) to forfeit the equipment to the Commonwealth; and

  (d)   if the owner does so--subsections   175(4) and 176(4), to the extent to which they relate to the ban, do not apply, and are taken never to have applied, to the possession of the equipment by:

  (i)   the owner; or

  (ii)   any other person.