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6. Part IV (Clauses 15-26) lays down particular penalties for breaches of the provisions of the Ordinance.

7. Part V (Clauses 27-35) deals exclusively with Radio- communication (i.e. Wireless Telegraphy) and provides inter alia for the following matters :—

(a) the vesting in the Governor in Council of the exclusive privilege of establishing and using stations and appliances for transmitting and receiving wireless messages, with the right to licence installations and apparatus ashore and afloat;

(b) the licensing of dealers in apparatus for radiocom- munication, with the main object of checking and tracing the existence of unlicensed installations;

(c) the making by the Governor in Council of regulations for examining and issuing certificates of proficiency to operators, for ensuring the secrecy of wireless communications, for controlling, by rules to be framed beforehand, the use of wireless apparatus in times of emergency, and generally for giving effect to the provisions of this Part.

(d) the payment, out of fines inflicted on offenders, of rewards to persons supplying the information that has led to conviction.

8. Part VI (Clause 36 to end) covers various miscellaneous matters, repeals, exemptions, commencement, etc.

9. The source of each clause is shown in the Table of Correspondence attached.

March, 1936.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.