MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS
(Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 21st December, 2021
G.S.R. 870(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), and in supersession of the Use of Very Low Power Radio Frequency Devices or Equipments for Inductive Applications (Exemption from Licensing Requirement) Rules, 2015, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:
1. Short title, commencement and application. — (1) These rules may be called the Use of Very Low Power Radio Frequency Devices or Equipments for Inductive Applications (Exemption from License) Rules, 2021.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
(3) These rules shall not be applicable to the wireless equipment which has been type approved under the Use of Very Low Power Radio Frequency Devices or Equipments for Inductive Applications (Exemption from Licensing Requirement) Rules, 2015, and shall be effective till the end of its life.
2. Definitions. — (1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, –
(a) “Act” means the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885);
(b) “Authority” means the authority notified by the Central Government under sub-section (2) of section 4 of the Act;
(2) The words and expressions used in these rules and not defined herein but defined in the Act and the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933 (17 of 1933), shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in those Acts.
3. Exemption. — No licence shall be required by any person to establish, maintain, work, possess or deal in any wireless telegraphy apparatus for the purpose of usage of very low power radio frequency devices or equipments for Inductive Applications (including wireless charging through inductive process) in the frequency bands mentioned below, on non-interference, non-protection and shared and non-exclusive basis, complying with the technical specification contained in the following Table, namely: —
TABLE:
| S.No. | Frequency Band (kHz) | Magnetic Field
Strength limit |
Spectrum
access and |
Remarks | *EN No. |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) |
| 1 | 9-90 | 72 dBµA/m at 10m distance | No requirement | EN 300 330 | |
| 2 | 90-119 | 42 dBµA/m at 10 m distance | No requirement | EN 300 330 | |
| 3 | 119-135 | 66 dBµA/m at 10 m distance | No requirement | EN 300 330 | |
| 4 | 135-140 | 42 dBµA/m at
10m distance |
No requirement | EN 300 330 | |
| 5 | 140-148.5 | 37.7 dBµA/m at 10m distance | No requirement | EN 300 330 | |
| 6 | 3155-3400 | 13.5 dBµA/m at 10m distance | No requirement | EN 300 330 | |
| 7 | 148.5-5000; except the sub- band mentioned at Sl No. 6 above |
-15 dBµA/m at 10m distance | No requirement | In case of external antennas only loop coil antennas may be employed. The maximum magnetic field strength is specified in a bandwidth of 10 kHz. The maximum allowed total magnetic field strength is -5 dBμA/m at 10 m for systems operating at bandwidths larger than 10 kHz whilst keeping the density limit (15 dBμA/m in a bandwidth of 10 kHz) |
EN 300 330 |
| 8 | 7400-8800 | 9 dBµA/m at 10m distance | No requirement | EN 300 330 | |
| 9 | 10200-11000 | 9 dBµA/m at 10m distance | No requirement —————– | EN 300 330 | |
| 10 | 5000-30000 except the sub- bands mentioned at (i) Sl No. 8 & 9 above; and
(ii) 6765-6795, the limit of which is specified in Table-1 of G.S.R. 1047(E) dated 18.10.2018 |
-20 dBµA/m at 10m distance | No requirement | In case of external antennas only loop coil antennas may be employed. The maximum magnetic field strength is specified in a bandwidth of 10 kHz. The maximum allowed total magnetic field strength is -5 dBμA/m at 10m for systems operating at bandwidths larger than 10 kHz whilst keeping the density limit (20 dBμA/m in a bandwidth of 10 kHz) |
EN 300 330 |
*EN: is a number and acronym used for Harmonized European Standard as produced by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
Note: For the purpose of the above Table, Inductive application includes car immobilisers, radio frequency identification (RFID) applications including for example, automatic article identification, asset tracking, alarm systems, waste management, personal identification, access control, proximity sensors, anti-theft systems, location systems, Near Field Communications (NFC) applications such as used for data transfer to handheld devices, anti-theft systems including Radio Frequency (RF) antitheft induction systems such as Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) etc., wireless control systems, animal identification, cable detection, wireless voice links, automatic road tolling, wireless power transfer (WPT) or wireless charging through inductive loop system having radiocommunication between transmitter and receiver, etc.
4. Interference (1) Radio frequency interference is the effect of unwanted energy due to one or a combination of emissions, radiations or induction upon reception in a radio communication system, manifested by any performance degradation, misinterpretation, or loss of information which could be extracted in the absence of such unwanted energy, and where any person whom a license has been issued under the provisions of section 4 of the Act, informs the Authority that such licensed system is getting harmful interference from any other radio communication system exempted under these rules, then the Authority shall call upon the user of such unlicensed wireless equipment to take necessary steps to avoid interference by relocating the equipment, reducing the power and using special type of antennae, failing which the Authority shall recommend discontinuation of such wireless use.
(2) The Authority shall give a reasonable opportunity to the user of wireless equipment before making recommendation of discontinuation of wireless use under sub-rule (1).
5. Equipment type approval. — (1) The wireless equipment shall be designed and constructed in such a manner that the bandwidth of emission and other parameters shall conform to the limits specified in rule 3 and such equipment shall be type approved, and the application for obtaining equipment type approval shall be made to the Central Government in the format given in the Annexure to these rules.
(2) The equipment shall comply with the respective EN number for effective use of spectrum and to avoid harmful interference.
(3) The safety related requirements shall be as per the International or National standards such as International Telecommunication Union (ITU) or European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) or American National Standards Institute (ANSI) or Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) or International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), as the case may be, for the respective devices and frequency bands.
ANNEXURE
APPLICATION FOR EQUIPMENT TYPE APPROVAL
[See rule 5(1)]
Section-A- Applicant
1. Name of manufacturing agency applying :
for equipment type approval
2. Postal address of manufacturing Agency :
3. Name and address of Indian agency
applying for the type approval.
4. Name of product and the product :
Identification (model number etc.,)
Section- B- Details of Transmitter
5. Frequency range :
6. No. of preset switchable channels :
7. No. of voice /Data/ TV Channels :
(In case of multi- channel equipment)
8. Tx-Rx channel separation :
(In case of Duplex/multi-channel equipment)
9. Adjacent channel separation :
(In case of multi-channel equipment)
10. Frequency stability :
11. Spurious/ Harmonic radiations :
i. Carrier suppression :
(In case of carrier suppressed systems)
ii. Unwanted side band suppression :
(In case of SSB systems)
iii. 2nd Harmonic radiations
iv. 3rd Harmonic radiations
12.Max. Frequency Deviation :
13.Mode of emission :
14.Bandwidth of emission:
15.Test Tone deviation :
16.Base band frequency
(In case of multi-channel equipment)
17.Type of modulation to be required :
18.Pre-emphasis:
19.Power output :
(At the input of antenna)
20. Any other information:
Section-C- Details of Receivers
21. Frequency range :
22. Mode of reception :
23. Spurious response of receiver :
24. Sensitivity :
25. Frequency stability :
26. (a) Effective noise temperature :
(b) Threshold input level :
27. Intermediate frequency :
28. De-emphasis :
29. Selectivity :
30. Any other particulars :
Signature of the applicant
Place :
Date :
(Note : Separate application should be submitted for each type of equipment.)
[F. No. R-11019/01/2021-PP]
ASHIM DUTTA, Dy. Wireless Adviser
