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Friday, October 19, 1973
"However, it is intended that the regulations should permit the
Telecommunications Authority to issue closed circuit television licences
to enable hotels to screen entertainmen. films on television sets in the
hotel guest rooms, subject to such films having passed censorship and
subject to no paid commercial advertising being included in the programme,
he said.
It is expected that regulations will also be published at the same
time to enable licences to be issued to operators of broadcast relay systems.
Commenting on this aspect, Mr. Watt said: "It will be recalled
that the government has already legislated to provide for the installation,
without a licence, of communal television aerials on the roofs of single
buildings, where cables do not have to cross public streets."
Once this legislation becomes effective, these aerial distribution
systems will require no licence although they will be liable to inspection
by the Telecommunications Authority to ensure that they do not cause
interference with other communication systers. Such systems will not be
permitted to change the input frequency.
"However, the proposed broadcast relay licences," Mr. Watt explained,
"will permit licensees to connect up buildings for relay purposes and to
convert the input frequencies to lower frequencies for the ease of
transmission of signals along the longer cables in such systems.
"Broadcast