Exemption.
Licences
for radio- communica- tion may be granted by the
Governor.
Power of delegation
and of
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28. The provisions of this Part shall not apply to officers or men of His Majesty's Army, Royal Navy or Royal Air Force using wireless apparatus in the performance of their official duties or to apparatus so used.
29.-(1) The Governor may, whenever he deems it expedient to do so, license the establishment of any radio- communication station or the installation or working of any apparatus for radiocommunication in any place in the Colony or on board any British ship registered in the Colony.
(2) The Governor may delegate his power of issuing licences to the Postmaster Géneral or to such officer or officers appointment. as he thinks fit, and may appoint officers, who shall be known as wireless inspectors, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
Bribery.
Ordinance No. 1 of 1898.
Licences for radiocom- munication stations and for dealers in wireless equipment.
Penalty for
station or working apparatus without a licence.
(3) Every such officer shall be deemed a public servant within the meaning of sections 3 and 4 of the Misdemeanors Punishment Ordinance, 1898.
30.-(1) No person shall, in any place in the Colony or on board any British ship registered in the Colony-
(a) establish, maintain, work or use a radiocommunica- tion station; or
(b) offer for sale, sell or have in his possession, whether with a view to sale or otherwise, any apparatus or material for radiocommunication,
except under and in accordance with a licence, sale permit or letter of exemption granted under this Ordinance.
(2) Every such licence, sale permit and letter of exemption shall be in such form and for such period as the Governor in Council determines and shall contain such terms, conditions and restrictions on and subject to which the licence is granted as the Governor in Council considers desirable in the public interest.
(3) Any person who is in possession of apparatus for radiocommunication shall be deemed until the contrary is proved to have worked the same.
(4) The occupier of any dwelling-house or premises in which is installed radiocommunication equipment in respect of which a licence is not in force shall be guilty of an offence against this Part.
(5) It shall be a defence to a prosecution for an offence against sub-section (4) that the occupier was not aware, and could not with reasonable diligence have become aware, of the existence in the dwelling-house or premises of the radio- communication equipment in question.
31.-(1) If a magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there is ground for believing that a radiocommunica- tion station has been established or is being maintained, or that any apparatus for radiocommunication is being used or is in the possession of any person, without a valid licence
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