Broadcasting (Offences) Act, 1968

Prohibition of acts connected with broadcasting from certain ships and aircraft, and from marine structures outside the State.

4.—(1) If a broadcast is made—

(a) from a ship other than one registered in the State while the ship is on the high seas,

(b) from an aircraft other than one so registered while the aircraft is on or over the high seas,

(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 person being a citizen of Ireland 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.