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CAP. 106!
Telecommunication Regulations
[1989 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
(b) to use the Radar Station for transmitting and receiving signals (not being messages having a verbal significance) within the frequency band specified in the Schedule hereto, for the purposes of the determination of position, bearing or distance, or for the gaining of information as to the presence, absence, position or motion of any object or of any objects of any class.
GENERAL CONDITIONS
1. (1) The Licensee, and all persons operating the stations which the Licensee is authorized by this Licence to establish and use (hereinafter called "the said Stations"), shall observe and comply with the relevant provisions of the Telecommunication Convention.
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(2) The apparatus comprised in the said Stations shall be so designed, constructed, maintained and used that the use of the said Stations does not cause any avoidable interference with any radiocommunication.
(3) (a) Any apparatus comprised in the Ship Station or the Lifeboat Stations shall at all times be so adjusted that it shall only be possible to transmit with such apparatus on a frequency specified in the Schedule.
(b) Any such apparatus shall at all times comply with the requirements of the Merchant Shipping Safety Convention (Hong Kong) and the Rules made thereunder which are from time to time in force.
(4) The said apparatus, and in particular the headgear receivers and microphones thereof, shall be kept in clean and sanitary condition, and dangerous parts of the said apparatus shall be so screened or isolated as to ensure the reasonable comfort and health of the persons operating the said Stations.
(5) This Licence, any notices of variation served on the Licensee in writing by virtue of the provisions of clause 4(3) of this Licence, the latest edition of the Handbook for Radio Operators issued by H.M. Postmaster General, published at the date thereof, the documents listed in that edition of the said Handbook as required to be carried on board a ship of the category to which the ship belongs, and a copy of all Notices to Ship Wireless Stations current for the time being, shall be carried on board the ship in the wireless room, and a copy of section 10 of the Telecommunication Ordinance (Cap. 106) shall be exhibited in the wireless room. The Licence together with any notices of variation served on the Licensee in writing by virtue of the provisions of clause 4(3) of this Licence shall be available for inspection, when required, by any person acting in the course of his duty on behalf of the Telecommunications Authority or the Director of Marine and by competent authorities of the countries where the ship calls.
(6) The call sign of the Ship Station referred to above shall be used whenever it is necessary to identify the Ship Station. Such call sign followed by 2 digits (other than 0 or 1) shall be used to identify any of the Lifeboat Stations. A different combination of digits shall be used in respect of each Lifeboat Station.
(7) The Licensee shall not permit or suffer any unauthorized person to operate the said Stations or to have access to the apparatus comprised therein:
Provided that the Licensee shall permit any person, acting in the course of his duty on behalf of the Telecommunications Authority or the Director of Marine, to have access to the said Stations at all reasonable times for the purpose of inspecting and testing the apparatus comprised therein. The Licensee shall ensure that persons operating the said Stations observe the conditions of this Licence at all times.
(8) The said Stations shall be closed down at any time on the demand in writing of an officer of the Telecommunications Authority.
The Licensee shall render to the Telecommunications Authority such accounts as the Telecommunications Authority shall direct in respect of all charges due or payable under the Telecommunication Convention in respect of messages exchanged between the Ship Station and any other stations, and shall pay to the Telecommunications Authority at such times and in such manner as the Telecommunications Authority shall direct all sums which shall be due from the Licensee for such messages. A certified statement of any such sums signed on behalf of the Telecommunications Authority by a duly authorized officer, shall for all purposes (including the purposes of any proceedings by or against the Crown) be sufficient evidence, unless the contrary is proved, of the facts stated therein.