1983 Ed.]
Telecommunication
[CAP. 106
Annex D
8.
(1) Save under and in accordance with a licence granted Prohibition of by the Governor in Council or with the appropriate licence granted by the Authority, no person shall in Hong Kong or on board any British ship or aircraft that is registered in Hong Kong-
(a) establish or maintain any means of telecommunication; or (b) possess or use any apparatus for radiocommunication or any apparatus of any kind that generates and emits radio waves notwithstanding that the apparatus is not intended for radiocommunication; or
(c) deal in the course of trade or business in apparatus or material for radiocommunication or in any component part of any such apparatus or in apparatus of any kind that generates and emits radio waves whether or not the apparatus is intended, or capable of being used, for radiocommunication; or
(d) demonstrate, with a view to sale in the course of trade or business, any apparatus or material for radiocom- munication.
(2) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the fact that the person from whom any apparatus for telecommunica- tion is loaned, leased or hired, or the person maintaining a means of telecommunication of which other apparatus forms part or with which other apparatus is connected, is the holder of a licence granted under this Ordinance, does not exempt the person to whom the apparatus is loaned, leased or hired, or the person maintaining, possessing or using the apparatus forming part of, or connected with, such means of telecommunication, as the case may be, from the necessity to obtain such licence or licences as may be required under this Ordinance.
(3) Nothing in this section shall affect any public telephonic communication by wire supplied and operated under the Telephone Ordinance.
(4) Nothwithstanding anything contained in subsection (1), no licence shall be required under that subsection in respect of—
(a) any sound broadcast receiving apparatus;
(b) any material or component part of such sound broadcast
receiving apparatus;
(c) any television receiver;
(d) any material or component part of a television receiver;
(Added, 2 of 1968, s. 3. Amended, 17 of 1972, s. 2)
(e) any system which, without a change of frequency, carries from a single aerial, by wire or other material substance which does not cross a public street or unleased Crown land, to outlet points in one building or in more than one building if such buildings are owned by the same person
establishment and maintenance of means of telecommunica- tion, etc., except under licence.
(Cap. 269.)
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