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Provisions as to
secrecy.
Registers of messages to be kept.
Accounts.
Power to Governor to inspect apparatus.
Licence and other documents
by ships.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 4, 1921.
or the Government of any self-governing Dominion in accordance with the Padiotelegraph Convention, 1912. Such certificates will be valid only during the operation of the said Convention. When issued by the Governor such certificates will be granted to persons of such technical proficiency and will be in such form and will be subject to such conditions as the Governor shall from time to time prescribe and they may be, by whomsoever issued, endorsed or withdrawn at the discretion of the. Governor in case of misconduct or breach on the part of the holder of the regulations prescribed for the working of ship stations.
13. The Licensee shall not divulge to any person (other than properly authorised officials of His Majesty's Government or a competent legal tribunal) or make any use whatever of any message coming to the knowledge of the License
see and not intended for receipt by means of the licensed apparatus. The Licensee shall exhibit at each of the ship stations specified in the Schedule hereto a copy of Section 11 of the Post Office (Protection) Act, 1884, and any contravention of that section by any person in the employment of the Licensee shall be deemed to be a breach of the provisions of this Licence entitling the Governor under clause 22 hereof to revoke and determine this Licence.
14. The Licensee shall keep full accounts records and registers of all messages transmitted by means of the licensed apparatus and in such registers each of such messages shall be accompanied by its identifying number and date and full particulars of its place of origin and of ultimate destination and such further particulars as the Governor shall from time to time reasonably require to be shown; messages on His Majesty's service being in such registers distinguished from other messages. The Licensee shall preserve all used message forms written and printed and transcripts of messages and all other papers for a period of at least fifteen months counting from the month following that in which the radiotelegrams were handed in as prescribed by the Radiote- legraph Convention, 1912, and such registers and message papers shall be open to the inspection of the Governor or his officers thereto authorised at the Office of the Licensee in Hongkong or at such other place as may be agreed between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on every day except Sunday or a general or public holiday.
15. The Licensee shall render to the Governor such accounts as the Governor shall direct in respect of all charges, if any, due or payable under the Radiotelegraph Convention, 1912, in respect of messages exchanged between the ship stations hereby licensed and coast stations and shall pay to the Colonial Treasurer at such times and in such manner as the Governor shall direct all sums which shall be due from the Licensee under such accounts.
16. The Governor and any agent authorised in that behalf in writing by him may at all reasonable times enter upon all or any of the ship stations hereby licensed for the purpose of inspecting and may inspect any apparatus fixed or being in such stations respectively for the purpose of sending and receiving messages by wireless telegraphy and all other telegraphic instruments and apparatus fixed or being in such stations respectively and the working and user of such apparatus and telegraphic instrument respectively.
17. The Licensee shall carry on every ship on which a ship station is established under this Licence a print or copy of the Licence certified under to be carried the hand of the Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Hongkong or appropriate officer of the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom or of the Government of any self-governing Dominion to be a true copy and shall produce such print or copy for inspection if required to do so by the competent authorities of the countries where the ship calls. The Licensee shall also carry on every such ship such documents as may be prescribed by the Governor for the purpose of enabling the Licensee to communicate with coast stations and ship stations in accordance with the Radiotelegraph Convention, 1912.
Royalties.
18.-(1.) The Licensee shall pay to the Colonial Treasurer for and in respect of the Licence hereby granted a royalty of $25 per annum in respect of each ship station at which the licensed apparatus is installed.
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