Wireless Telegraphy Act

Arrangement of Sections

1. Short title

2. Meaning of wireless telegraphy

3. General interpretation

4. Licence required for use of wireless telegraphy apparatus

5. Licence required for dealing in wireless telegraphy apparatus

6. Grant of licences

7. Fees and charges for licences

8. Experimental licences

9. Regulations as to wireless telegraphy

10. Misleading messages and interception and disclosure of messages

11. Territorial extent of preceding provisions

12. Powers of Commission as to wireless personnel

13. Regulations as to radiation of electro-magnetic energy, etc

14. Enforcement of regulations as to the use of apparatus

15. Enforcement of regulations as to sales, etc., by manufacturers and others

16. Deliberate interference

An Act to make provision for the regulation of wireless telegraphy.

1. Short title

[1961 No. 31. L.N. 108 of 1968. 1998 No. 31.]

[Commencement] PART I

Preliminary

[1 st July, 1966]

This Act may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy Act.

2. Meaning of wireless telegraphy

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

“wireless telegraphy” means the emitting or receiving, over paths which are not pro- vided by any material substance constructed or arranged for that purpose, of electro- magnetic energy of a frequency not exceeding three million megacycles a second, being energy which either-

and reference to stations for wireless telegraphy and apparatus for wireless telegraphy shall be construed as references to stations and apparatus for the emitting or receiving as aforesaid of such electro-magnetic energy as aforesaid:

Provided that where-