ukcrypto digest, Vol 1 #734 - 5 msgs

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Roland Perry <roland@linx.net> wrote:

> WaveLAN is operated on a band that doesn't require licences. Same for
> Bluetooth and CB radio. There must be some legal instrument which
> defines what these bands are.


http://www.spectrumreview.radio.gov.uk/

From page 94 of Professor Cave's full report on Spectrum Review:

LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK

Current regime 

6.2 There is little guidance in the primary legislation on spectrum
management, the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949, on the objectives which
should condition the regulation of spectrum use in the UK. The Act forbids
the use of wireless telegraphy  apparatus unless licensed by the Secretary
of State or subject to an order exempting defined classes of radio use.

6.4 Ministers exercise their powers under the Wireless Telegraphy Acts via 
the Radiocommunications Agency, an executive agency of the Department of
Trade and Industry. The RA, in carrying out its statutory functions as an
agent of the Secretary of State, is guided by the DTI s own non-statutory 
departmental objectives.


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I think this is the particular order which made 802.11 (WaveLAN?)
exempt from licensing:


            Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 2250

	The Wireless Telegraphy (Short Range Devices)
	(Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 


http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1994/Uksi_19942250_en_1.htm