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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 10, 1926.
As to persons employed to work
manner of
working.
12.-(1) The licensed apparatus at each of the ship stations mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall be worked only by operators holding certificates stations and issued by the Governor or the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom or the Government of any self-governing Dominion, and the licensee shall provide for the working of each station such operators as are required by the provisions of Article X of the Service Regulations annexed to the Radiotelegraph Conven- tion, 1912, according to the class of the ship station and shall observe the regu- lations as to the working of the ship station laid down according to its class by Article XIII of the said Regulations.
Provisions as to
secrecy.
Registers of messages to be kept.
Accounts.
Power to Governor to inspect
(2) A certificate shall not be recognised as authorising the holder to work a ship station under the terms of this licence unless it bears a statement that it is issued by the Governor or the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom or the Government of any self-governing Dominion in accordance with the Radiotelegraph Convention, 1912. Such certificates will be valid only during the operation of the said Convention. When issued by the Governor, such certificates will be granted to persons of such technical proficiency and will be in such form and will be subject to such conditions as the Governor shall from time to time prescribe and they may be, by whomsoever issued, indorsed or withdrawn at the discretion of the Governor in case of misconduct or breach on the part of the holder of the regulations prescribed for the working of ship stations.
13. The licensee shall not divulge to any person (other than properly authorised officials of His Majesty's Government or a competent legal tribunal) or make any use whatever of any message coming to the knowledge of the licensee and not intended for receipt by means of the licensed apparatus. The licensee shall exhibit at each of the ship stations specified in the Schedule hereto a copy of section 11 of the Post Office (Protection) Act, 1884, and any contravention of that section by any person in the employment of the licensee shall be deemed to be a breach of the provisions of this licence entitling the Governor under clause 22 hereof to revoke and determine this licence.
14. The licensee shall keep full accounts, records and registers of all messages transmitted by means of the licensed apparatus, and in such registers each of such messages shall be accompanied by its identifying number and date and full particulars of its place of origin and of ultimate destination and such further particulars as the Governor shall from time to time reasonably require to be shown, messages of His Majesty's service being in such registers distinguished from other messages. The licensee shall preserve all used message forms written and printed and transcripts of messages and all other papers for a period of at least lifteen months counting from that month following that in which the radiotelegrams were handed in as prescribed by the Radio- telegraph Convention, 1912, and such registers and message papers shall be open to the inspection of the Governor or his officers thereto authorised at the office of the licensee in Hongkong or at such other place as may be agreed between 10 a.m. and 5 p.n. on every day except Sundays or general or public holidays.
15. The licensee shall render to the Governor such accounts as the Governor shall direct in respect of all charges, if any, due or payable under the Radiotelegraph Convention, 1912, in respect of messages exchanged between the ship stations hereby licensed and coast stations and shall pay to the Colonial Treasurer at such times and in such manner as the Governor shall direct all sums which shall be due from the licensee under such accounts.
16. The Governor and any agent authorised in that behalf in writing by him may at all reasonable times enter upon all or any of the ship stations hereby apparatus. licensed for the purpose of inspecting, and may inspect, any apparatus fixed or being in such stations respectively for the purpose of sending and receiving messages by wireless telegraphy and all other telegraphic instruments and apparatus fixed or being in such stations respectively and the working and user of such apparatus and telegraphic instruments respectively.
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