The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 2003

Regulation 3(1)

SCHEDULE 4 CORDLESS TELEPHONE APPARATUS

PART I INTERPRETATION

In this Schedule—

“data message” means a non-voice message;

“MPTs 1322, 1334, 1371 and 1384” means Department of Trade and Industry Performance Specifications 1322, 1334, 1371 and 1384 referred to in Part IV of this Schedule; and

“prescribed apparatus” means a station or apparatus described in the Interface Requirement referred to in Part III of this Schedule.

PART II ADDITIONAL TERMS, PROVISIONS AND LIMITATIONS

1.  The prescribed apparatus shall be subject to and comply with the Interface Requirement referred to in Part III of this Schedule.

2.  Prescribed apparatus taken into service before 1st May 2000 must also comply with the appropriate Common Technical Regulations referred to in Part IV of this Schedule, and in the absence of a Common Technical Regulation applying to such apparatus, the prescribed apparatus must—

(a) be approved by the Secretary of State under section 84 of the 1984 Act for the purposes of these Regulations;

(b) be approved to the ETSI standards referred to in Part IV of this Schedule as appropriate by a national administration following type testing at a test laboratory; or

(c) comply with the requirements of MPT 1322, MPT 1334, MPT 1371 or MPT 1384 as appropriate in relation to prescribed apparatus taken into service before section 84 of the 1984 Act came into force,

provided that paragraph (a) above shall not apply in relation to prescribed apparatus situated in the Bailiwick of Jersey.

PART III INTERFACE REQUIREMENT

• IR 2011—UK Radio Interface Requirement for the Cordless Telephony Service, published by RA in March 2000.

PART IV COMMON TECHNICAL REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS

CT1

• Department of Trade and Industry Performance Specification MPT 1322 published in August 1982 and revised and reprinted in August 1994.

• Department of Trade and Industry Performance Specification MPT 1384 published in November 1997.

Extended range CT1

• Department of Trade and Industry Performance Specification MPT 1371 published in May 1989 and revised and reprinted in August 1994.

CT2

• Department of Trade and Industry Performance Specification MPT 1334 published in December 1987 and revised and reprinted in July 1994.

• I-ETS 300 131 published by ETSI in April 1992 and revised and reprinted in November 1994.

DECT

• CTR 006—Commission Decision of 9th July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the general terminal attachment requirements for DECT(1), including the ETSI Technical Basis for Regulation TBR 006.

• CTR 010—Commission Decision of 9th July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the telephony application requirements for DECT(2), including the ETSI Technical Basis for Regulation TBR 010.

• CTR 022—Commission Decision of 9th July 1997 on a common technical regulation for the attachment requirements for DECT generic access profile (GAP)(3), including the ETSI Technical Basis for Regulation TBR 022.

• ETSI Technical Basis for Regulation TBR 006 published in December 1993 and revised and reprinted in December 1995.

(1)

O.J. No. L215, 9.7.97, p. 48.

(2)

O.J. No. L215, 9.7.97, p. 50.

(3)

O.J. No. L215, 9.7.97, p. 52.