Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1995 No. 74 RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (MULTIPOINT DISTRIBUTION STATION LICENCES - REGIONAL LICENCES) GUIDELINES No. 1 of 1995 - REG 9

9. Subject to the Act if, in the opinion of the SMA, the operation of a number
of co-sited MDS transmitters in accordance with licence conditions, including
licence conditions imposed in accordance with these Guidelines, results in
interference to radiocommunications receivers of other services operating in
the same or any other frequency band, through mechanisms such as
intermodulation, receiver overload or receiver blocking, then:

   (a)  in exercising its power under section 107 of the Act to impose a
        condition on an MDS licence; or

   (b)  its power under section 111 of the Act to impose a further condition
        on, or to vary a condition of an MDS licence; the SMA must exercise
        the power for the purpose of ensuring that the interference no longer
        results from the operation of those transmitters. (NOTE. The
        likelihood of such interference is increased when an MDS transmitter
        is sited in close proximity to those other radiocommunications
        receivers. Licensees should be encouraged to consider these
        interference mechanisms in selecting sites for their MDS transmitters,
        and to take all reasonable steps to avoid interference to closely
        sited receivers.)