stations and manner of working.
Provisions as to secrecy.
Registers of messages to he kept.
Accounts.
Power to inspect apparatus.
Licence
and other
documents to be carried.
Licence not to be assigned.
Power to take possession of or control apparatus upon
emergency.
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 26, 1929. 377
by licensed such certificated operators as are required by the International Radiotelegraph Regulations according to the class of the ship station hereby licensed
19. 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 appar- atus. The licensee shall exhibit at the ship station hereby licensed 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 Postmaster General under clause 26 hereof to revoke and determine this licence.
20. 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 Postmaster General shall from time to time reasonably require to be shown, messages on 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 fifteen months counting from the month following that in which the radiotelegrams were handed in as prescribed by the Radiotelegraph Convention and such registers and message papers shall be open to the inspection of the Postmaster General or his officers thereto authorised at the office of the licensee in Hong Kong or at such other place as may be agreed between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on every day except Sundays or general or public holidays.
21. The licensee shall render to the Postmaster General such accounts as the Governor shall direct in respect of all charges, if any, due or payable under the Radiotelegraph Convention in respect of messages exchanged be- ween the ship station hereby licensed and coast stations and shall pay to the Postmaster General at such times and in such manner as he shall direct all sums which shall be due from the licensee under such accounts.
22. The Postmaster General and any agent authorised in that behalf in writing by him may at all reasonable times enter upon the ship station hereby licensed for the purpose of inspecting, and may inspect, any apparatus fixed or being in such station for the purpose of sending and receiving messages by wireless telegraphy and all other telegraphic instruments and apparatus fixed or being in such station and the working and user of such apparatus and telegraphic instruments.
23. The licensee shall carry on the said ship a print or copy of this licence certified under the hand of the Postmaster General to be a true copy, and shall produce such print or copy for inspection if required to do so by the competent authorities of the countries where the ship calls. The licensee shall also carry on the said ship such documents as may be prescribed by the Postmaster General for the purpose of enabling the licensee to communicate with coast stations and ship stations in accordance with the Radiotelegraph Convention.
24. Except with the consent in writing of the Postmaster General, the licensee shall not assign, underlet or otherwise dispose of, or admit any other person or body to participate in the benefit of the licences, powers or authorities hereby granted or any of such licences, powers or authorities.
25.-(1) If and whenever an emergency shall have arisen in which it is expedient for the public service that His Majesty's Government shall have control over the transmissions of messages by the licensed apparatus, it shall be lawful for any naval, military, customs or police officer or any other person authorised by the Admiralty to take possession of the licensed apparatus or