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Examination

3.

for the issue of certificates

of compe Lency, and tests. Second Schedule.

Issue by

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(1) The Authority may-

(a) conduct the examination specified in the second column of Part I of the Second Schedule and, if he is satisfied as to the competency of the person examined, issue to him the appropriate certificate of competency; and

(6) conduct the tests specified in the second colume of Part II of

the Second Schedule.

(2) The appropriate fee prescribed in the third column of the Second Schedule shall be payable in respect of any such examination

or test.

(3) Every certificate of competency shall be in such form as the Authority may, from time to time, determine.

(4) The person to whom a certificate of competency is issued shall make a declaration of secrecy in such form as the Authority may, from time to time, determine.

4. (1) The Authority may issue to any person whom he considers Authority of suitably qualified a certificate of competency in radiocommunication

certificates

authorizing holding of positions in a radio- communica- tion sution.

Fee on grant

and may attach thereto an authority to operate authorizing such person to hold such position in a radiocommunication station other than in an aircraft as is specified in the certificate, being a position that may. by virtue of condition of the licence granted under the Ordinance. in respect of the radiocommunication station, be held only by a person for the time being holding such a certificate.

(2) The Authority may at any time cancel, or suspend for such period as he thinks fit, any authority to operate issued under para- graph (1) if he is satisfied that the person to whom it was issued bas contravened the Ordinance or is incompetent or has been guilty of misconduct in the discharge of his duties in the position that he is thereby authorized to hold but may not cancel or suspend the certificats to which the authority is attached.

(3) Where an authority to operate issued under paragraph (1) is cancelled or suspended, the Authority may by notice in writing require the person to whom the authority to operate was issued to return the same to him within the period specified in such notice, and if such person refuses or neglects to return the authority to operate within the period specified in such notice, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

5.

A fee of fifty dollars shall be payable on the grant of a permit of permit for for the purpose of section 9 of the Ordinance.

purposes of

section 9 of

Ordinance.

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of licence

6. (1) If any licence, certificate or authority to operate granted Loss or or issued under these regulations is lost or destroyed, the Authority shall destruccion be notified in writing of its loss or destruction as soon as practicable, or certi- and may issue a duplicate of the licence, certificate or authority to ficate.

operate.

(2) Where under paragraph (1) the Authority issues-

(a) a duplicate of a licence or certificate, a fee of one dollar shall

be payable in respect thereof; and

(b) a duplicate of a certificate specified in Part I of the Second Second

Schedule, a fee of ten dollars shall be payable in respect Schedule.

thereof.

(3) Where no fee is payable on the grant of a licence by virtue of the provisions of paragraph (5) of regulation 2, no fee shall be payable upon the issue of a duplicate under this regulation.

Third

7. (1) Any licence specified in the second column of the Third Transitionni Schedule granted under the repealed Telecommunication Ordinance and provisions. in force at the commencement of these regulations shall be deemed for schedule. all purposes to be such a licence as is specified opposite thereto in the Cup. 106). third coluran of the Third Schedule granted under and in accordance with these regulations and-

(a) in the case of the licence specified in item 1 in the said Schedule, shall be valid for one year from the date on which it was granted; and

(6) in the case of the licences specified in items 2. 3. 4 and 5 in the said Schedule, shall be valid until the first day, in the year 1963, of the month next following the month in which they were granted.

(2) A private business wireless station licence granted under the repealed Telecommunication Ordinance and in force at the commence- ment of these regulations shall be deemed to be a mobile radio system fixed station licence, a mobile radio system mobile station licence, an aeronautical Very High Frequency fixed station licence, a radiophone communication fixed station licence or a radiophone communication mobile station licence, granted under and in accordance with these regulations, according to the nature of the means of telecommunication in respect of which the private business wireless station licence was granted and shall be valid until the first day, in the year 1963, of the month next following the month in which it was granted.