The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 2003

Regulation 3(1)

SCHEDULE 7 PMR 446

PART I INTERPRETATION

In this Schedule, “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—

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

(b) be approved to the standard referred to in Part IV of this Schedule by a national administration following type testing at a test laboratory,

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

PART III INTERFACE REQUIREMENT

• IR 2009—UK Radio Interface Requirement for Private Business Mobile Radio Operating in the Licence Exempt PMR 446 MHz Band, published by RA in December 2000.

PART IV STANDARD

• ETS 300 296 published by ETSI in December 1994 and revised and reprinted in March 1997.