Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967
| Year | 1967 |
Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967
1967 CHAPTER 41
An Act to suppress broadcasting from ships, aircraft and certain marine structures.
[14th July 1967]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Prohibition of broadcasting from ships and aircraft.
(1) It shall not be lawful for a broadcast to be made from a ship or aircraft while it is in or over the United Kingdom or external waters, nor shall it be lawful for a broadcast to be made from a ship registered in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or an aircraft so registered while the ship or aircraft is elsewhere than in or over the United Kingdom or external waters.
(2) If a broadcast is made from a ship in contravention of the foregoing subsection, the owner of the ship, the master of the ship and every person who operates, or participates in the operation of, the apparatus by means of which the broadcast is made shall be guilty of an offence; and if a broadcast is made from an aircraft in contravention of that subsection, the operator of the aircraft, the commander of the aircraft and every person who operates, or participates in the operation of, the apparatus by means of which the broadcast is made shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) A person who procures the making of a broadcast in contravention of subsection (1) above shall be guilty of an offence.
(4) In subsection (2) above—
(a ) ‘master’, in relation to a ship, includes any other person (except a pilot) having command or charge of the ship;
(b ) ‘operator’, in relation to an aircraft, means the person for the time being having the management of the aircraft.
2 Prohibition of broadcasting from marine structures.
(1) It shall not be lawful for a broadcast to be made from—
(a ) a structure in external waters or in tidal waters in the United Kingdom, being a structure affixed to, or supported by, the bed of those waters and not being a ship; or
(b ) any other object in such waters, being neither a structure affixed or supported as aforesaid nor a ship or aircraft;
and if a broadcast is made in contravention of the foregoing provision, every person who operates, or participates in the operation of, the apparatus by means of which the broadcast is made shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who procures the making of a broadcast in contravention of the foregoing subsection shall be guilty of an offence.
3 Prohibition of acts connected with broadcasting from certain ships and aircraft, and from marine structures outside United Kingdom.
(1) If a broadcast is made—
(a ) from a ship other than one registered in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands while the ship is on the high seas; or
(b ) from an aircraft other than one so registered while the aircraft is on or over the high seas; or
(c ) from a structure on the high seas, being a structure affixed to, or supported by, the bed of those seas and not being a ship; or
(d ) from any other object on those seas, being neither a structure affixed or supported as aforesaid nor a ship or aircraft;
any of the persons mentioned in subsection (3) below who operates, or participates in the operation of, the apparatus by means of which the broadcast is made shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who procures a broadcast to be made as mentioned in the foregoing subsection shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) The persons referred to in subsection (1) above are the following, namely:—
(a ) a citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies;
(b ) a British subject by virtue of section 2 of the British Nationality Act 1948 (continuance of certain citizens of the Republic of Ireland, therein referred to as Eire, as British subjects);
(c ) a British subject without citizenship by virtue of section 13 or section 16 of that Act (which relate respectively to British subjects whose citizenship has not been ascertained at the commencement of that Act and to persons who had ceased to be British on loss of British nationality by a parent);
(d ) a British subject by virtue of the British Nationality Act 1965 ; and
(e ) a British protected person (within the meaning of the British Nationality Act 1948 ).
4 Prohibition of acts facilitating broadcasting form ships, aircraft, &c.
(1) A person who does any of the acts mentioned in subsection (3) below, while satisfying the condition as to knowledge or belief mentioned in the case of that act, shall be guilty of an offence if—
(a ) he does the act in the United Kingdom or external waters or in a ship registered in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or an aircraft so registered while the ship or aircraft is elsewhere than in or over the United Kingdom or external waters; or
(b ) being a person mentioned in section 3(3) of this Act, he does the act on or over the high seas.
(2) A person who, in the United Kingdom, procures another person to do, outside the United Kingdom, anything which, if it had been done in the United Kingdom by the last-mentioned person, would have constituted an offence under the foregoing subsection, shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) The acts, and conditions as to knowledge or belief, referred to in subsection (1) above are the following, namely:—
(a ) furnishing or agreeing to furnish to another a ship or aircraft knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, that broadcasts are to be made from it in contravention of section 1(1) of this Act or while it is on or over the high seas;
(b ) carrying or agreeing to carry in a ship or aircraft wireless telegraphy apparatus knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, that by means thereof broadcasts are to be made from the ship or aircraft as aforesaid;
(c ) supplying to, or installing in, a ship or aircraft wireless telegraphy apparatus knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, that by means thereof broadcasts are to be made from the ship or aircraft as aforesaid;
(d ) supplying any wireless telegraphy apparatus for installation on or in, or installing any such apparatus on or in, any structure or other object (not being, in either case, a ship or aircraft) knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, that by means of that apparatus broadcasts are to be made from the object in contravention of section 2(1) of this Act or while the object is on the high seas;
(e ) repairing or maintaining any wireless telegraphy apparatus knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, that, by means thereof, broadcasts are made, or are to be made, in contravention of section 1(1) or 2(1) of this Act or as mentioned in section 3(1) of this Act;
(f ) knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, in the case of a ship or aircraft, that broadcasts are made, or are to be made, from it in contravention of section 1(1) of this Act or while it is on or over the high seas—
(i) supplying any goods or materials for its operation or maintenance, for the operation or maintenance of wireless telegraphy apparatus installed therein or for the sustentation or comfort of the persons on board of it;
(ii) carrying by water or air goods or persons to or from it;
(iii) engaging a person as an officer or one of the crew of it;
(g ) knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, in the case of a structure or other object (not being, in either case, a ship or aircraft), that broadcasts are made, or are to be made, from it in contravention of section 2(1) of this Act or while it is on the high seas—
(i) supplying any goods or materials for its maintenance, for the operation or maintenance of wireless...
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