50Apparatus on foreign-registered ships etcU.K.
(1)The Secretary of State may make regulations for regulating the use, on board a foreign-registered ship or aircraft while it is within the limits of the United Kingdom and UK territorial sea, of wireless telegraphy apparatus on board the ship or aircraft.
(2)The regulations may provide—
(a)for the punishment of persons contravening the regulations by a fine;
(b)for the forfeiture of any wireless telegraphy apparatus in respect of which an offence under the regulations is committed.
(3)The maximum fine for each offence under the regulations is—
(a)an amount not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale; or
(b)a lesser amount.
(4)The regulations may make different provision for ships or aircraft registered in different countries.
(5)Except as provided by this section or in consequence of an Order in Council under section 119(3), nothing in sections 8 to 11, 35 to 38, 45 to [F148], 105 and 119 operates so as to impose any prohibition or restriction on persons using wireless telegraphy apparatus on board a foreign-registered ship or aircraft.
(6)A foreign-registered ship or aircraft is one that—
(a)is not registered in the United Kingdom; and
(b)is registered in a country other than the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in s. 50(5) substituted (27.6.2018) by Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25), ss. 259(7)(a), 272(1) (with Sch. 9 paras. 7, 8, 10); S.I. 2018/652, reg. 12(b) (with reg. 20)