3. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after Part III, the following Part:
“PART IIIA
CLASS LICENCE
Class licence
53A.—(1) A person who possesses or uses a relevant radio‑communication station shall be deemed to have been granted a class licence by the Authority for that purpose.
(2) A class licence shall be subject to the conditions set out in the Fourth Schedule.
(3) Where a person has an existing licence for the possession or use of a relevant radio‑communication station, that licence shall be revoked as from 1st April 1997 and he shall be deemed to have been granted a class licence.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation and the Fourth Schedule, “relevant radio‑communication station” means a radio‑communication station that is connected with any of the following telecommunication systems licensed under section 26 of the Act:
(a)
a public cellular mobile telephone system;
(b)
a public radio paging system;
(c)
a public data system;
(d)
a public trunked radio system,
and includes a radio-communication station that is capable of being used in connection with any of the telecommunication systems referred to in sub‑paragraphs (a) to (d) but which is not in use and not so connected.”.