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(50) Telecommunication Convention" means the Convention signed at Madrid on the 9th day of December, 1932, and the Re- gulations made thereunder and includes any Convention and Re- gulations which may from time to time be in force in substitution therefor or in amendment thereof.

(51) “Telegram” includes also "radiotelegram," except when the text expressly precludes such a meaning.

(52) Telegraph" means an electric, galvanic or magnetic telegraph, and includes appliances and apparatus for transmitting, receiving or making telecommunication, but does not include electric appliances and apparatus, other than radio, the operation and scope of which is limited to communication concerning the affairs of the sender or receiver thereof and confined to a single messuage or tenement or works area.

(53) "Telegraphy" means telecommunication by any system of telegraph signalling.

(54) "Telephone broadcasting service" means a service carrying out the broadcasting of radiotelephone emissions specifically intend- ed to be received by the public in general.

(55) Telephone broadcasting station" means a station per- forming a telephone broadcasting service.

(56) "Telephone circuit" means an electrical connexion permit- ting the establishment of telephone communication in both directions between two telephone exchanges.

(57) "Telephone exchange" means an installation permitting the establishment of telephone calls.

(58) "Telephony" means telecommunication by any system of telephone signalling.

(59) Terminal exchanges" means exchanges connected directly by an international circuit.

(60) "Transit call" means a telephone call established by means of more than one international telephone circuit.

(61) "Unit charge in a particular international service" means the charge proper to an ordinary call of three minutes duration ex- changed during the period of heavy traffic.

(62) "Visual broadcasting service” means a service carrying out the broadcasting of visual images, fixed or moving, specifically intended to be received by the public in general.

(63) "Visual broadcasting station" means a station performing a visual broadcasting service.

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2. It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General (hereinafter referred to as the licensing authority") to grant the following licences and certificates,--

(a) Fixed, Coast, Aeronautical, Ship and Aircraft Stations. (b) Amateur and Private Experimental station licences.

(c) Broadcast receiving licences.

(d) Dealers licences.

(e) Operators and Watchers certificates of proficiency.

(f) Radio distribution station licences.

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3. Licences and certificates of proficiency granted by the licensing authority under these regulations shall be licences certificates, as the case may be, of the Government of Hong Kong within the meaning of any telecommunication convention from time to time or at any time acceded to by or applied to this Colony, and of any regulations made thereunder.

4. No person shall offer for sale, sell, or have in his possession with a view to sale in the course of his business any installation, mechanism, instrument, material or other apparatus constructed for the purpose of or intended to be used for radiocommunication in this

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