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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-exemption-regulations-2003/schedule-3/part-I",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/74",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-exemption-regulations-2003",
  "path": "schedule/3/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "INTERPRETATION",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“BABT” means the British Approvals Board for Telecommunications;\n“BTx” means Base Transmit, the frequency on which a base station transmits and a user station receives;\n“CDMA” means Code Division Multiple Access as defined in the Radio Regulations;\n“MTx” means Mobile Transmit, the frequency on which a user station transmits and a base station receives;\n“prescribed apparatus” means a user station as defined below and any station or apparatus described in the appropriate Interface Requirement referred to in Part IV of this Schedule;\n“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;\n“TDD” means Time Division Duplex as defined in the Radio Regulations; and\n“user station” means a mobile station for wireless telegraphy designed or adapted—\n(a) to be connected by wireless telegraphy to one or more relevant networks; and\n(b) to be used solely for the purpose of sending and receiving messages conveyed by a relevant network by means of wireless telegraphy.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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."
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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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