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4. No person shall establish, maintain, or have in his Licences possession any wireless telegraph station in any place required for in the Colony, or on board any British ship registered telegraphy. in the Colony, except under and in accordance with a licence granted under this Ordinance.
5. If a magistrate is satisfied by information on oath Search. that there is reasonable ground for believing that a wire- less telegraph station has been established, or is being maintained, or used, or is in the possession of any person, without a valid license under this Ordinance, he may grant a search warrant to any police officer to enter the place or ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) where it is believed that the wireless telegraphy station has been established or is being maintained, or used, or is in the possession of some person, and to search such place or ship, and to seizo any apparatus which appears to him to have been established or main- tained, or used, or to be in the possession of any person, in contravention of this Ordinance.
6.-(1) Every person who contravenes any provision Penalties. of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder, and every person who fails to comply with any condition of any licence issued under this Ordinauce, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand,dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.
(2) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to order to be forfeited to the Crown any apparatus with respect to which any offence against this Ordinance has been com- mitted, whether any person shall have been charged with, or shall have been convicted of, such offence or not.
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7. All ship station licences issued under the Wireless Continuance Telegraphy Ordinance, 1913, shall, notwithstanding the of ship repeal of that Ordinance, continue in full force and Fences validity until terminated by effluxion of time or by issued under -cancellation.or in some other lawful manner.
Ordinance No. 20 of 1913,
8. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the Commence- 1st day of
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9. The Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1913, is Repeal of repealed
Ordinance No. 20 of 198.
Objects and Reasons.
1. One of the principal objects of this bill is to make it necessary for receiving sets to be licensed. This is accomplished by amending the definition of the term telegraph so as to include apparatus for receiving as well as apparatus for sending. This follows the policy of the Wireless Telegraphy (Explanation) Act, 1925, 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 67.
2. The other principal object of the bill is to make it an offence to maintain, or possess, a wireless telegraph station without a licence. The present Ordinance makes it an offence only to establish a station, or work appa- ratus, without a licence. It will be noticed that the term "wireless telegraph station" is defined in the bill as including any apparatus which have been installed! for the purpose of being used for wireless telegraphy.
3. The opportunity has been taken to shorten and simplify the arrangement of the present Ordinance. For example, the whole subject of the licensing autho- rity and the form and conditions of the licences is