The Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference from Ignition Apparatus) Amendment (No. 1) Regulations 1957

Statutory Instruments

1957 No. 347

TELEGRAPHS

The Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference From Ignition Apparatus) Amendment (No. 1) Regulations, 1957

Made

1st March 1957

Laid before Parliament

7th March 1957

Coming into Operation

1st May 1957

I, The Right Honourable Alfred Ernest Marples, M.P., Her Majesty's Postmaster-General, by virtue of the powers vested in me by section ten of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949, by the said section as extended to the Channel Islands by the Wireless Telegraphy (Channel Islands) Order, 1952(1), and by the said section as extended to the Isle of Man by the Wireless Telegraphy (Isle of Man) Order, 1952(2), and of every other power enabling me in this behalf, do hereby make the following Regulations, that is to say:—

1.—(1) These regulations shall be read as one with The Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference from Ignition Apparatus) Regulations, 1952(3) (hereinafter called “the principal regulations”).

(2) In these regulations the expression “the British Islands” means the area comprised by the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889 applies to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2.  In paragraph (2) of regulation two of the principal regulations (which prescribes the circumstances in which the requirements of the principal regulations are to be complied with by assemblers and importers of ignition apparatus forming part of certain internal combustion engines), for the words “on and after the date on which these regulations come into operation” there shall be substituted the words “on and after the first day of May, 1957”, and for the words “the United Kingdom” in the two places where those words occur there shall be substituted the words “the British Islands”.

3.—(1) Sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of regulation three of the principal regulations (which regulation prescribes the circumstances in which the requirements of the principal regulations are to be complied with by users of ignition apparatus forming part of certain internal combustion engines) is hereby revoked, and the following sub-paragraph shall be substituted therefor:

“(a) ignition apparatus forming part of an internal combustion engine other than an engine which forms part of an aircraft or of a foreign vessel, except

(i) ignition apparatus which is proved by a person using it within the United Kingdom, or within the territorial waters adjacent thereto, to have been assembled as part of a vehicle, vessel or engine before the 1st day of July, 1953, and

(ii) ignition apparatus which is proved by a person using it within the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, or within the territorial waters adjacent thereto, to have been assembled as part of a vehicle, vessel or engine before the first day of May, 1957; and”.

(2) In paragraph (2) of the said regulation three and in proviso (i) to the said paragraph, for the words “the United Kingdom” there shall be substituted the words “the British Islands”.

4.  These regulations, and the principal regulations as hereby amended, shall apply to the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

5.  These regulations may be cited as “The Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference from Ignition Apparatus) Amendment (No. 1) Regulations 1957”, and shall come into operation on the first day of May, 1957.

Ernest Marples

Her Majesty's Postmaster-General

Dated this 1st day of March, 1957

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations provide for the application of the Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference from Ignition Apparatus) Regulations, 1952 to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

(1)

1952 III, p. 3414

(2)

1952 III, p. 3418

(3)

(1952 III, p. 3405).