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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-citizens-band-and-amateur-apparatus-various-provisions-amendment-order-1995/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2588",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Citizens' Band and Amateur Apparatus) (Various Provisions) (Amendment) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-citizens-band-and-amateur-apparatus-various-provisions-amendment-order-1995",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Order amends the Wireless Telegraphy (Citizens' Band and Amateur Apparatus) (Various Provisions) Order 1988 (“the principal Order”) which restricted the manufacture, sale, hire, offer or advertisement for sale or hire, custody and control and import of certain specified Citizens' Band (“CB”) radio apparatus and the manufacture and import of certain specified amateur radio apparatus.\nCB apparatus which is manufactured, sold, hired, offered for sale or hire or imported on or after 1st January 1996 and which operates in the frequency band 27.59625 – 27.99625 MHz will now have to be type approved under section 84 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 in order not to be restricted. This means that it will have to comply with Performance Specification MPT 1382 rather than MPT 1320, which will be withdrawn on 1st January 1996. CB apparatus operating in this frequency band which complied with MPT 1320 at the time of manufacture may still be used on or after 1st January 1996 if it was manufactured prior to that date (article 5).\nCB apparatus which is manufactured, sold, hired, offered for sale or hire or imported on or after the date of coming into force of this Order and which operates in the frequency band 26.960 – 27.410 MHz has to comply with ETS 300 135 either by being type approved under section 84 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 or by being type approved in certain other specified countries in order not to be restricted. CB apparatus operating in this frequency band which was manufactured before the date of the coming into force of this Order may still be used providing it was type approved under section 84 of the Telecommunications Act at the time of manufacture and thus complied with either ETS 300 135 or MPT 1333. Performance Specification MPT 1333 has now been withdrawn (article 5).\nSchedule 2 has been updated to reflect certain changes to the marking requirements for CB apparatus.\nCopies of Performance Specifications MPT 1333 and 1382 may be obtained from the Radiocommunications Agency Library at South Quay Three, 189 Marsh Wall, London E14 9SX (Tel: 0171-211 0211).\nCopies of ETS 300 135 may be obtained from the British Standards Institution, 389 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4AL (Tel: 0181 996 7000).\nIn addition to the requirements set out in article 3 of the principal Order unrestricted CB and amateur apparatus which is available commercially will have to comply with the type approval requirements set out in Part VI of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2372) as amended by the Electromagnetic Compatibility (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/3080) from 1st January 1996 before being supplied or taken into service.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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