Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 (repealed)

9 Amendments as to territorial extent of Part I of principal Act. U.K.

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(2) The references in paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (1) of the said section 6 to any British seagoing ship or British aircraft which is registered in the United Kingdom shall be construed as references to any ship or aircraft which is so registered; and accordingly the word “british” and “sea going”, wherever they appear in the said paragraphs (b) and (c), and the word “British” in the first and second places where it occurs in subsection (3) of the said section 6, are hereby repealed.

(3) In subsection (2) of the said section 6 (which enables the Postmaster General to make regulations for regulating the use, on board any foreign seagoing ship or foreign aircraft within the limits of the United Kingdom and the territorial waters adjacent thereto, of wireless telegraphy apparatus on board the ship or aircraft, and provides that save as aforesaid nothing in Part I of the principal Act shall operate so as to impose any prohibition or restriction on persons using wireless telegraphy apparatus on board any foreign seagoing ship or foreign aircraft)—

(a) for the words “foreign seagoing ship or foreign aircraft” there shall be substituted—

(i) in the first place where those words occur, the words “ ship or aircraft which, not being registered in the United Kingdom, is registered in a country other than the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands while that ship or aircraft is ” ;

(ii) in the second place where those words occur, the words “ such ship or aircraft as aforesaid ”;

(b) after the words “save as aforesaid” there shall be inserted the words “ or by virtue of an Order in Council under subsection (3) of this section ” ;

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(4) Regulations under subsection (2) of the said section 6 may make different provision for different cases or for ships or aircraft registered in different countries.

(5) The provisions of subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall have effect as from the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 9(1) repealed by Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 49, SIF 29), s. 3, Sch. 2

F2 Words repealed by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 109, Sch. 7 Pt. IV

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of ss. 9(2)(in part), (3), 10(2)(in part) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991