Use of Low Power and Very Low Power Short Range Radio Frequency Devices (Exemption from Licensing Requirement) Amendment Rules, 2024

REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-DL-E-10052024-254155 EXTRAORDINARY PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (i) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 250] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2024/VAISAKHA 20, 1946 MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS (Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 9th May, 2024 G.S.R. 271(E). In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4 and 7 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885) and sections 4 and 10 of the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933 (17 of 1933), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules to amend the Use of Low Power and Very Low Power Short Range Radio Frequency Devices (Exemption from Licensing Requirement) Rules, 2018, namely:- 1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These rules may be called the Use of Low Power and Very Low Power Short Range Radio Frequency Devices (Exemption from Licensing Requirement) Amendment Rules, 2024. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Use of Low Power and Very Low Power Short Range Radio Frequency Devices (Exemption from Licensing Requirement) Rules, 2018, in rule 3, (i) Table-VIII shall be omitted; (ii) in Table-IX, against Sl.No.14, for the entry under column(2), the entry "24.00-24.25 GHz" shall be substituted. 3. The Equipment Type Approvals (ETAs) issued for specific models in it prior to publication of this Notification shall continue to be valid till the life time of such models. [No. R-11017/03/2022-PP] AMIT KUMAR SINGH, Assistant Wireless Adviser Note: - The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide notification number GSR. 1047 (E), dated the 18th October, 2018.