Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926

Repeals and preservation of existing licences and payments.

15.—(1) The Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1904 and the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1906 are hereby repealed.

(2) All licences for the possession of apparatus for wireless telegraphy which were granted under the said Acts hereby repealed and were in force at the passing of this Act shall, notwithstanding such repeal, continue in force for such time as they would have continued in force under the said Acts if this Act had not been passed, but all such licences shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to have been granted under this Act and this Act shall apply to all such licences accordingly.

(3) No fee heretofore paid to the Minister in respect of a licence for the possession of apparatus for wireless telegraphy shall be recoverable on the ground that such fee was not legally chargeable.