Amateur Station Licence
Amateur Station Licence
37.—(1)  The Authority may grant the following classes of Amateur Station Licences to qualified or approved persons interested in the operation of radio-communication equipment solely for pleasure and for the furtherance of radio-communication techniques and not for pecuniary gain:
(a)General Class;
(b)Restricted Class; and
(c)any other class of licence which the Authority considers appropriate.
(2)  Notwithstanding regulation 20, an Amateur Station Licence may only be granted to a natural person and shall not authorise the use of radio-communication equipment by the licensee’s employees.
Age restrictions
38.—(1)  An Amateur Station Licence shall not be granted to a person below the age of 16 years.
(2)  Any application for an Amateur Station Licence by an applicant below the age of 21 years shall be countersigned by the applicant’s parent, guardian or by any other person approved by the Authority.
(3)  It is a condition of every Amateur Station Licence that a licensee between the ages of 16 and 21 years may only operate or use any Amateur Station if supervised by a qualified person approved by the Authority who has agreed to supervise the licensee, and that qualified person shall ensure that the licensee observes and complies with all the duties and obligations specified in the licence and these Regulations.
Qualifications
39.—(1)  An applicant for an Amateur Station Licence shall, unless exempted by the Authority —
(a)have passed the Radio Amateur Examination set by the Authority; or
(b)be in possession of an Amateur Radio Certificate acceptable to the Authority.
(2)  The fee payable to sit for the Radio Amateur Examination referred to in paragraph (1)(a) by —
(a)a full-time secondary, pre-university or tertiary student or a full-time student of the Institute of Technical Education, Singapore, shall be $20; and
(b)any other person, shall be $40.
[S 263/2006 wef 01/06/2006]
General conditions
40.  An Amateur Station licensee shall observe the following conditions:
(a)the station shall only be operated at locations approved by the Authority;
(b)the station shall in all cases be operated by the licensee or by persons named in the licence;
(c)the station and all equipment used or intended to be used by the licensee shall be erected, fixed, placed and used, so as not to cause interference to radio-communications in Singapore;
(d)the licensee shall identify himself by the transmission of the callsign assigned to him by the Authority at the beginning and end of each transmission;
(e)any change in the approved location, equipment, mast or antenna system must be approved by the Authority prior to the change being made;
(f)the licensee shall obtain the approval of all relevant authorities before erecting any mast or antenna to be used in connection with the operation of the station; and
(g)the licensee shall —
(i)keep a running record of all transmission periods showing the date and time of each period of transmission and the radio frequency and type of emission employed;
(ii)preserve the record of each entry made for 12 months; and
(iii)make the record mentioned in sub-paragraph (ii) available for inspection at all reasonable times by an authorised officer.
Prohibition on use of encryption devices
41.  It is a condition of every Amateur Station Licence that the licensee may not make use of encryption devices or equipment in the operation or use of any station.
Restrictions on transmission
42.  It is a condition of every Amateur Station Licence that —
(a)messages transmitted through an Amateur Station shall be in plain language and shall relate solely to the licensee’s experiments or personal affairs (not being business affairs), or to the personal affairs of the person with whom the licensee is communicating;
(b)the Amateur Station shall not be used for transmitting news, advertisements, communications of a business or non-experimental character, messages for pecuniary reward or messages for or on behalf of a third party;
(c)except with the written permission of the Authority, no licensee of an Amateur Station shall call or transmit to any station other than an Amateur Station;
(d)messages may only be exchanged with another Amateur Station, except where prohibited by law; and
(e)transmission shall not commence without listening in on the radio frequency to be used in order to ascertain that no interference is likely to be caused to any other station which may be functioning.
Power of Authority to order transmission
43.  It is a condition of every Amateur Station Licence that the licensee shall, if required by the Authority by notice in writing, transmit any message provided by the Authority by means of his licensed Amateur Station.
Portable stations
44.  The Authority may approve an Amateur Station as a portable or mobile station, subject to such conditions as the Authority may impose.