The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) (Amendment) (Model Control Apparatus) Regulations 1987
These Regulations amend the Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 1980, which exempted the installation and use of metal detectors and model control equipment from the requirement for a licence under section 1(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 subject to certain terms and conditions, in order to allow the frequencies between 34.995 and 35.255 MHz to be used by radio equipment which controls model aircraft and to allow the frequencies between 40.665 and 40.955 MHz to be used by radio equipment which controls land or water surface models using frequency modulation techniques only. The Regulations also require a standard power output of 100 milliwatts in relation to the use of all model control equipment.