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17. Any notice, request or consent (whether expressed to be in writing or not) to be given by the Postmaster General under this Licence may be signed by any officer of the Post Office duly author- ised by him and may be served by being sent in a registered letter addressed to the Licensee (if a Company) at its registered office for the time being or if not a Company at his last known address or by delivery to the master of the ship upon which the station is installed, and any notice to be given by the Licensee under this Licence may be served by being sent in a registered letter addressed to the Postmaster General, Hong Kong.
18. The expression Telecommunication Convention means the International Telecommunication Convention of Madrid, 1932, and the Service Regulations made thereunder and includes any Con- vention and Regulations which may from time to time be in force in substitution therefor or in amendment thereof.
19. The expressions used in this Licence have the same mean- ing as in the Telecommunication Convention unless there is some- thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.
20. This Licence covers the installation and maintenance of apparatus for wireless telegraphy upon lifeboats carried by the ship or during an emergency subject to the conditions contained in the Licence except condition 8. Such apparatus shall comply in all respects with any rules relating to wireless telegraphy installations in ships' lifeboats which may be made by the Governor in Council from time to time.
21. Any Licence or Permit heretobefore granted by the Post- master General to the Licensee in respect of the Station is hereby revoked.
22.-(i) 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 sending and receiving of messages by the station 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 station or any part thereof in the name and on behalf of His Majesty and to use the same for His Majesty's service and in that event any such officer or person so authorised may enter upon any ship on which a station is established and take possession of the station and use the same as aforesaid and subject to such use may use the same or allow it to be used for such ordinary services as may in his discretion seem fit or may prohibit and take steps to prevent the use of the same and issue directions which shall be obeyed by the Licensee to prevent such
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(ii) Any such officer or person so authorised as aforesaid may in any such event as aforesaid instead of taking possession of the station as aforesaid direct and authorise such persons as he may think fit to assume the control of the sending and receiving of messages by the station either wholly or partly and in such manner as he may direct and such persons may enter upon any ship on which a station is installed accordingly or the said officer or person so authorised as aforesaid may direct the Licensee to submit to him or any person authorised by him all messages tendered for despatch or received by the station or any class or classes of such messages to stop or delay the sending of any messages or the delivery thereof or deliver the same to him or his agent and generally to obey all such directions with reference to the sending, receiving or delivery of messages as the said officer or person so authorised as aforesaid may prescribe, and the Licensee shall obey and conform to all such directions.
(iii) The Licensee shall obey any instructions which may be issued by the Admiralty for observance by wireless telegraph ship stations during any such emergency as aforesaid.
(iv) The Licensee shall be entitled to reasonable compensation for any damage to the station arising in consequence of the exercise of the powers conferred by Sub-Clauses (i) and (ii) of this Clause.
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