The Wireless Telegraphy (Automotive Short Range Radar) (Exemption) Regulations 2005

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Exemption
     3. Subject to regulation 4, the establishment or installation of automotive short range radar equipment in a vehicle and the use of automotive short range radar equipment so established or installed is hereby exempt from the provisions of section 1(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949.

     4. The exemption provided for in regulation 3 shall be limited to automotive short range radar equipment which  - 

(a) operates within the frequency band between 77 gigahertz and 81 gigahertz;

(b) emits a mean power density no greater than  - 


(i) -3 dBm/MHz eirp associated with a peak limit of 55 dBm eirp; and

(ii) -9 dBm/MHz eirp outside the vehicle in which it is established or installed; and



(c) does not cause undue interference to other users of the frequency band between 77 gigahertz and 81 gigahertz.

Stephen Carter
Chief Executive of the Office of Communications For and by authority of the Office of Communications

22nd February 2005

[2] 1949 c. 54.back

[3] Section 16(1A) of the 1949 Act does not extend to the Channel Islands and therefore the procedures set out in section 403 of the 2003 Act, which it applies, are not requirements in so far as these Regulations extend to the Channel Islands.back

[4] Section 1(1) was extended to the Channel Islands by S.I. 1952/1900, as amended by S.I. 1967/1279, S.I. 1974/691 and S.I. 1997/284 and to the Isle of Man by S.I. 1952/1899, as amended by S.I. 1967/1280 and S.I. 1997/285. Section 1(1) was amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21) by section 406 and Schedule 17, paragraphs 6(1) and (2). These amendments were extended to Jersey by S.I. 2003/3197 article 6, to the Bailiwick of Guernsey by S.I. 2003/3195 article 6 and to the Isle of Man by S.I. 2003/3198 article 6. There are other amendments to section 1(1) not relevant to these Regulations.back