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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 126

(d) Thereafter call progressively for applications for sound-
radio warrants in respect of commercial frequency
modulation broadcasting stations to be established
in areas outside Auckland; and

(5) In pursuance of that policy, direct that you shall, in
carrying out the direction contained in clause (4), note that—
(a) Frequency modulation broadcasting should be developed
first in the band 88–93 MHz, and then in the band
94–100 MHz as other services are cleared; and
(b) The frequency assignment plan, which is to be based
on 50 kHz channel spacing, is to be prepared and
maintained by the Post Office; and
(c) Channel spacing is to be reviewed in 1986; and
(d) It is to be a principle, in relation to the frequency
assignment plan, that some frequencies are to be kept
unassigned to permit later developments in FM
broadcasting that may not be foreseen at present; and
(e) A frequency is not to be assigned to any frequency
modulation broadcasting station or amplitude modula-
tion broadcasting station simply because that
frequency is available; and
(f) As a general principle and subject to paragraph (g)
of this clause, the recommendations of the Inter-
national Telecommunication Unions’ International
Consultative Committee on Radio (CCIR) on signal
strength standards for reception should be the basis
for determining coverage objectives and the effective
radiated power of proposed frequency modulation
transmitters; and
(g) You may, in consultation with the Post Office, vary
the standards referred to in paragraph (f) of this
clause where you consider it necessary but, in making
any such variation, you shall have regard to the
importance of conserving frequencies and of avoid-
ing interference with other services; and
(h) Subject to paragraph (l) of this clause, FM transmitters
should be co-sited, where practicable, with television
transmitters; and
(i) Where co-siting is not practicable and paragraph (l) of
this clause does not apply, siting of a FM trans-
mitter within approximately one kilometre of a
television transmitter is to be preferred; and
(j) As a general principle medium and high powered FM
transmitters should be located at efficient transmission
sites outside urban areas; and
(k) It is envisaged that where difficulties arise between a
warrant holder and the Broadcasting Corporation of
New Zealand in establishing a mutually acceptable
co-siting agreement, the difficulties should be settled
by arbitration; and
(l) Low-powered transmitters need not be co-sited with
television transmitters; and
(m) The location of transmitters not co-sited shall be chosen
with regard to achieving compatibility with other
services and efficient use of FM broadcasting
frequencies; and
(n) The same sense slant polarisation shall be used for all
FM broadcasting but you may, in your discretion,
permit a different type of mixed polarisation if it is
justified for any particular transmission; and

(6) Hereby revoke the notice which was dated the 23rd
day of February 1981 and which was given to you under
section 68 (1) of the Broadcasting Act 1976*.

Dated this 27th day of October 1981.

WARREN COOPER, Minister of Broadcasting.

*Gazette, 1981, p. 415

Notice Under the Regulations Act 1936

Pursuant to the Regulations Act 1936, notice is hereby given of the making of regulations as under:

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