Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926

Restrictions on user of apparatus for wireless telegraphy.

12.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person so to work or use any apparatus for wireless telegraphy that electro-magnetic radiation therefrom interferes with the working of or otherwise injuriously affects any apparatus for wireless telegraphy in respect of which a licence has been granted under this Act and is in force or any apparatus for wireless telegraphy lawfully maintained or worked without any such licence or any broadcasting station maintained under Part II. of this Act.

(2) Whenever the Minister is of opinion that a person is working or using any apparatus for wireless telegraphy in contravention of this section he may serve on or send by registered post to such person a notice requiring such person within a time (not being less than seven days) specified in the notice to take such steps (including where necessary the complete stoppage of the working or user of the apparatus) as shall be specified in the notice to terminate the interference or injurious affection which contravenes this section.

(3) Every person who works or uses any apparatus for wireless telegraphy in contravention of this section and, having been served with a notice under this section requiring him to terminate the interference or injurious affection which contravenes this section, does not within the time specified in that behalf in such notice terminate by the means specified in such notice or by some other means such interference or injurious affection shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding one pound for every day during which the offence continues.

(4) No notice shall be served under this section in respect of the working or using of apparatus for wireless telegraphy in contravention of this section in a ship to which the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919 applies without the previous consent of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

(5) Nothing in this section shall operate to prejudice or affect any power or right vested in the Minister under or by virtue of the Telegraphy Acts, 1863 to 1921.