Broadcasting and Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1988

Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1972.

19.—Section 2 of the Act of 1972 is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsections for subsection (2):

“(2) A person shall not act as a television dealer unless, prior to his so acting, he has given to the Minister a notice in the prescribed form, or in a form to the like effect, containing the following information—

(a) the person's name, and

(b) the place or places where the records which a television dealer is required by this Act to keep will be kept by him and be available for inspection,

and the information when received shall be entered in the register established and maintained under subsection (1) of this section.

(2A) In any proceedings in which a contravention of subsection (2) of this section is alleged, it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove—

(a) that, immediately before the commencement of the Broadcasting and Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1988, apart from sections 16 and 21 thereof, he was a television dealer,

(b) that he gave to the Minister, either before or after the commencement of that Act, the notice required to be so given by this section, and

(c) that such notice contained the information so referred to and was given by him to the Minister not later than thirty days after the defendant started to act as a television dealer.”.