Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904
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Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1904
(4 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 24.
An Act to provide for the regulation of Wireless Telegraphy.
[15th August 1904]
B E it enacted by the King'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 Licences for wireless telegraphy.
(1) A person shall not establish any wireless telegraph station or instal or work any apparatus for wireless telegraphy in any place or on board any British ship, except under and in accordance with a licence granted in that behalf by the Postmaster-General.
(2) Every such licence shall be in such form and for such period as the Postmaster-General may determine and shall contain the terms, conditions and restrictions on and subject to which the licence is granted, and any such licence may include two or more stations, places or ships.
(3) If any person establishes a wireless telegraph station without a licence in that behalf, or instals or works any apparatus for wireless telegraphy without a licence in that behalf, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and be liable, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds and, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding twelve months, and in either case be liable to forfeit any apparatus for wireless telegraphy installed or worked without a licence, but no proceedings shall be taken against any person under this Act except by order of the Postmaster-General, the Admiralty, the Army Council or the Board of Trade.
(4) If a justice of the peace is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for supposing that a wireless telegraph station has been established without a licence in that behalf, or that any apparatus for wireless telegraphy has been installed or worked in any place or on board any ship within his jurisdiction without a licence in that behalf he may grant a search warrant to any police officer or any officer appointed in that behalf by the Postmaster-General, the Admiralty, the Army Council or the Board of Trade and named in the warrant, and a warrant so granted shall authorise the officer named therein to enter and inspect the station, place or ship and to seize any apparatus which appears to him to be used or intended to be used for wireless telegraphy therein.
(5) Sections six hundred and eighty-four, six hundred and eighty-five and six hundred...
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