The Wireless Telegraphy (Jersey) Order 2003

PART I EXCEPTIONS, ADAPTATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS IN THE EXTENSION OF PROVISIONS OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1984 TO JERSEY

1.  Any reference to an Act of Parliament (including the Telecommunications Act 1984), or to a provision thereof, shall be construed, unless the contrary intention appears, as a reference to that Act or provision as it has effect in Jersey.

2.  For any reference to a constable there shall be substituted a reference to a police officer.

3.  Section 74 shall be omitted.

4.  In section 75—

(a) subsection (1) shall be omitted,

(b) in subsection (2), the words from “for the purpose of” to the end shall be omitted, and

(c) in subsection (3)—

(i) the words “in this section or” and paragraph (a) shall be omitted, and

(ii) in paragraph (b), for “that date” in the first place where it occurs there shall be substituted “this section is extended to Jersey”.

5.  Section 77 shall be omitted.

6.  In section 79—

(a) for subsection (1)(a) and (b) there shall be substituted—

“(a) any offence under the 1949 Act other than one consisting in the installation or use, otherwise than under and in accordance with a wireless telegraphy licence, of any apparatus not designed for emission (as opposed to reception);”,

(b) subsection (1)(c) and the word “; and” immediately before it shall be omitted, and

(c) subsection (6)(b) and the word “; and” immediately before it shall be omitted.

7.  Sections 80 and 81 shall be omitted.

8.—(1) Section 82 shall be modified in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph.

(2) In the subsections which section 82 substitutes for subsection (3) of section 14 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949—

(a) in subsection (3)—

(i) paragraph (c) and the word “; or” immediately before it shall be omitted,

(ii) for the words “Secretary of State” there shall be substituted “Crown for the benefit of the Crown Revenues of the Bailiwick of Jersey”, and

(iii) the words “or (c)” shall be omitted,

(b) subsection (3A) shall be omitted,

(c) in subsection (3B), for “by the Secretary of State in such manner as he thinks fit” there shall be substituted “in such manner as the Viscount thinks fit”,

(d) subsection (3C) shall be omitted, and

(e) in subsections (3D) and (3E), for “the Secretary of State” there shall be substituted “a police officer”.

9.  In section 83—

(a) in subsection (1)(b), the words “or proceedings for forfeiture of that property under section 80 or 81 above”, and

(b) in subsection (2)(b), the words “or under section 80 or 81 above”,

shall be omitted.

10.  Sections 84 to 88 and 90 shall be omitted.

11.  In section 91—

(a) in subsection (1), the words “or for the forfeiture of any apparatus under section 80 or 81 above” and the words from “(whether” to “leave)”, and

(b) subsection (4),

shall be omitted.

12.  In section 92(1)—

(a) there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place, the following definition—

““police officer” means a member of the Honorary Police or of the States of Jersey Police.”; and

(b) the definition of “the 1967 Act” shall be omitted.

13.  In section 106(4), after the words “country or territory outside the United Kingdom” there shall be inserted “and the Bailiwick of Jersey”.

14.  Section 109(6) shall have effect only so far as it relates to Part IV of Schedule 7.

15.—(1) Schedule 3 shall be modified in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) In the subsections which paragraph 1 substitutes for section 14(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949—

(a) in subsection (1), the words from “on summary” to “indictment”,

(b) in subsection (1A), paragraphs (e) and (f) and the words “on summary conviction”,

(c) in subsection (1B), the words “on summary conviction”, and

(d) in subsection (1C), the words “on summary conviction”,

shall be omitted.

(3) For the subsections which paragraph 2 adds at the end of the said section 14 there shall be substituted the following subsection:

“(8) In this section “police officer” means a member of the Honorary Police or of the States of Jersey Police and “the standard scale” means the standard scale of fines for the time being specified in the Criminal Justice (Standard Scale of Fines) (Jersey) Law 1993.”

(4) Paragraph 3 shall be omitted.

16.  Part IV of Schedule 7 shall have effect in relation only to such of the enactments specified there as have effect in Jersey.