CO129-545-7 Telegraphy and Telephony- amendments to legislation 1-11-1933 - 24-3-1934 — Page 22

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Licences required for wireless telegraphy.

Search.

Fenalties.

Continuance of ship

station

4. No person shall establish, maintain, or have in his possession any wireless telegraph station in any place in the Colony, or on board any British ship registered in the Colony, except under and in accordance with a licence granted under this Ordinance.

5. If a magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for believing that a wire- less telegraph station has been established, or is being maintained, or used; or is in the possession of any person, without a valid license under this Ordinance, he may grant a search warrant to any police officer to enter the place or ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) where it is believed that the wireless telegraphy station has been established or is being maintained, or used, or is in the possession of some person, and to search such place or ship, and to seize any apparatus which appears to him to have been established or main- tained, or used, or to be in the possession of any person, in contravention of this Ordinance.

6.-(1) Every person who contravenes any provision of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder, and every person who fails to comply with any condition of any licence issued under this Ordinance, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.

(2) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to order to be forfeited to the Crown any apparatus with respect to which any offence against this Ordinance has been com- mitted, whether any person shall have been charged with, or shall have been convicted of, such offence or

not.

7. All ship station licences issued under the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1913, shall, notwithstanding the repeal of that Ordinance, continue in full force and issued under validity until terminated by effluxion of time or by cancellation or in some other lawful manner.

licences

Ordinance

No. 20 of 1913.

Commence- ment.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 20 of 1913.

8. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the 10th day of September, 1926.

9. The Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1913, is repealed.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 26th day of August, 1926.

S. B. B. McElderry,

Clerk of Councils.