Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The ACMA may allocate such a spectrum licence in accordance with the procedures determined under section 60 but not otherwise.
(2) The ACMA must issue the spectrum licence to the person to whom it is allocated if the person:
(a) pays to the ACMA the spectrum access charge for issuing the licence; or
(b) reaches an agreement with the ACMA for the payment of that spectrum access charge.
Note: Spectrum access charges are determined under Part 5.7.
(3) If the issue of the licence is covered by section 153L (which deals with re - allocation of spectrum), the ACMA may defer the issue of the licence until the relevant frequencies become available as a result of the expiry, surrender or cancellation of one or more apparatus licences that, under section 153D, are affected by the spectrum re - allocation declaration concerned.
(4) This section has effect subject to section 577J of
the Telecommunications Act 1997 .