Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1972

Notification and recording of certain transactions.

3.—(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, every registered dealer required to give a notice under section 2 of this Act who after the expiration of the period within which he is required to give that notice—

(a) sells a television set by wholesale or by retail;

(b) lets a television set on a hire contract or on a hire-purchase agreement; or

(c) arranges for a television set to be sold or let as aforesaid to any person by another television dealer,

shall, in relation to that sale or letting, give to the Minister a notice containing the particulars specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Act and make a record of the particulars specified in that Part, and the particulars shall be given to the Minister not later than—

(i) in case a time is specified in the said Schedule in relation to the particulars, that time, and

(ii) in any other case, the last day of the month which follows the month during which the sale or letting was made.

(2) Where a registered dealer sells or lets a television set to another registered dealer for sale or letting by that other dealer, the registered dealer who made the sale or letting shall not be required to comply with subsection (1) of this section but shall instead, in relation to the sale or letting, give to the Minister, not later than the last day of the month which follows the month during which the sale or letting was made, a notification of the name and address of the other registered dealer concerned and make a record of that name and address.

(3) Where pursuant to an arrangement of the kind specified in subsection (1) (c) of this section, a television set is sold or let by a registered dealer and subsection (1) of this section is required to be complied with as regards the sale or letting by the other dealer concerned—

(a) in relation to the sale or letting the registered dealer with whom the arrangement was made shall not be required to comply with subsection (1) of this section, and

(b) that registered dealer shall, unless all payments of or towards the price or by way of rent in respect of the sale or letting are to be received or collected on his behalf by the dealer who made the arrangement, in relation to the sale or letting, give to the Minister, within the time specified in subsection (2) of this section, a notification containing the particulars specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Act.