Regulations.
Licences required for wireless telegraphy.
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Penalties.
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for wireless telegraphy, whether for sending or receiving or for sending and receiving, and whether such apparatus or collection of appa- ratus be complete or not.
3.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the licensing, regulation and control of wireless telegraphy within the Colony and the waters thereof, and on board British ships registered in the Colony, including the prescribing of fees to be payable in respect of licences and permission granted under this Ordinance, and for prohibiting or restricting the use of wireless telegraphy at such times, on such occasions, and subject to such conditions, as may seem expedient to him.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a reso- lution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any regula- tion shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded, or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolu-
tion.
4. No person shall establish, maintain, or have in his possession any wireless telegraph station in any place in the Colony, or on board any British ship registered 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 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 nay 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 seize 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 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 Ordinance, 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.
7. All ship station licences issued under the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1913, shall, notwithstanding the repeal of that Ordinance, continue in full force and issued under validity until terminated by effluxion of time or by cancellation or in some other lawful manner.
licences
Ordinance
No. 20 of
1913.
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