Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1972

Offences and penalties.

10.—(1) A person who—

(a) without reasonable cause or excuse, fails to comply with any of the requirements of section 2 , 3 or 4 of this Act or a requirement of an order under section 5 of this Act, or

(b) in purported compliance therewith—

(i) furnishes any information which to his knowledge is false in a material respect, or

(ii) makes or causes to be made or knowingly allows to be made any record which to his knowledge is false in a material respect,

shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection.

(2) A person who—

(a) sells, lets on hire or manufactures any apparatus for wireless telegraphy in contravention of section 7 of this Act,

(b) imports any such apparatus in contravention of the said section 7,

(c) contravenes or fails to comply with any term or condition subject to which a licence is granted to him by the Minister under the said section 7, or

(d) contravenes or fails to comply with any special condition subject to which, by virtue of section 8 of this Act, a licence is deemed to have been granted to him by the Minister under the Principal Act,

shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding—

(a) in case the offence relates to a requirement of an order under the said section 5, twenty-five pounds, and

(b) in any other case, one hundred pounds.

(4) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) of this section shall be liable on summary conviction—

(a) in the case of a first such offence, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and

(b) in the case of a second or subsequent such offence, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds,

and also, in every case, forfeiture of all the apparatus in respect of which the offence was committed.

(5) If a person is convicted of failing to comply with a requirement mentioned in subsection (1) of this section and the failure to comply with the requirement continues after the conviction, that person shall be guilty of a further offence of failing to comply with the requirement and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.