Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 68.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905-1919.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Wireless Telegraph Act 1905-1919, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of April, 1920.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. H. LAIRD SMITH,

for Minister of State for the Navy.

 

Amendment of Wireless Telegraphy Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 212, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, No. 136, 1918, Nos. 17 and 164, and 1919, No. 134.)

1. Regulation 3 is repealed.

2. Regulation 4 is repealed and the following inserted in its stead:—

Licences.

“4. (i) Licences under section 5 of the Act may be (a) ship licences or (b)experimental and instructional licences. Licences shall be in accordance with the forms prescribed at the end of these Regulations.

(ii) A ship licence shall be granted only in respect of a ship station on an Australian ship.

(iii) An experimental and instructional licence may be granted to technical schools and similar institutions and to persons for instructional purposes or scientific investigation of wireless telegraphy or wireless telephony phenomena, subject to the applicant producing satisfactory proof of his competency to conduct experiments scientifically.

(iv) A licence shall be for a period of one year from the date thereof and may be renewed from time to time.”

3. Regulation 5 is repealed and the following inserted in its stead:—

Fee for licences.

“5. (i) The fee for a ship licence shall be One pound and shall be paid in advance.

(ii) The fee for an experimental and instructional licence shall be Two pounds and shall be paid in advance.”

4. Regulation 6 is repealed and the following inserted in its stead:—

Applications for licences.

“6. (i) An application for a ship licence must be in writing, and must set out the following particulars:—

(a) the name of the ship in respect of which the licence is applied for;

(b) the port in Australia at which the ship is registered;

(c) the system of wireless telegraphy to be used on the ship.

(ii) Before granting the licence the Minister may require the applicant to furnish such additional particulars as he thinks necessary.

(iii) Experimental and instructional licences shall only be granted to applicants who are natural-born British subjects, and who reside in Australia.

(iv) An application for an experimental and instructional licence must be in writing and must set out the following particulars:—

(a) Name in full, age, residence, previous training and present occupation, nationality, and parents’ nationality;

(b)The scientific, technical, practical or other grounds upon which it is desired to obtain a licence;

(c) Complete diagram of connexion and description of the apparatus it is intended to use.”

5. Regulation 8 is repealed and the following inserted in its stead:—

“8. (i) Every ship licence shall be made out in triplicate. Two parts shall be issued to the licensee and the other retained in the Department of the Navy.

(ii) Before the licence is issued to the applicant he shall execute the part of the licence to be retained in the Department.”

6. Regulation 11 is amended by inserting after the word “ship” the words “or land”.

7. Regulation 24 is repealed.

8. At end of Regulations the following forms of licence are added:—

No.

Dated 191

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

Licence to to Use Wireless Telegraphy or Telephony for Experimental Purposes.

To all to whom these presents shall come, I the Honorable the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 send greeting:

Whereas of in the State of (hereinafter called “the licensee”) is desirous of establishing, erecting, maintaining, and using a system of wireless telegraphy or telephony as defined in section 2 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 with the sole object of conducting demonstrations or experiments in wireless telegraphy or telephony. And whereas by reason of the provisions of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916, and of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919, it is unlawful to establish, erect, maintain, or use any station or appliance for the purpose of transmitting or receiving messages by means of wireless telegraphy or

telephony except under and in accordance with a licence granted in that behalf by the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraph Act 1905-1919, and it is also unlawful, save as in the said Acts provided, to transmit telegrams or other communications by telegraph within the Commonwealth of Australia:

And whereas the licensee has made application for this licence;

Now I, the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 aforesaid, in pursuance of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 and in exercise of all powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby grant to the licensee from the date of these presents until these presents are determined as hereinafter provided, licence and permission—

(i) To establish, erect, maintain, and use at the station specified in the first and second schedules hereto, appliances for the purpose only of receiving messages by means of wireless telegraphy or telephony (hereinafter called “the licensed appliances”) provided that the appliances installed at the station shall be of the character specified in the said first and second schedules; and

(ii) To receive messages by means of wireless telegraphy or telephony at the said station from any experimental station provisionally authorized or fully licensed by the Minister.

Provided that the licensed appliances shall be worked and the messages shall be received solely for the purpose of conducting experiments in wireless telegraphy or telephony, and for no other purpose whatever.

And I do hereby declare that the said licence and permission is granted on and subject to the following conditions and provisions:—

Interpretation clause.

1. In these presents (and in the schedules hereto) the following words and expressions shall have the several meanings hereinafter assigned to them unless there be something, either in the subject or context, repugnant to such construction (that is to say):—

(1) The expression “wireless telegraphy” has the same meaning as in the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919.

(2) The terms “telegraph” and “telegraph line” have the same meanings as in the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916.

(3) The expression “naval signalling” means signalling by means of any system of wireless telegraphy or telephony between two or more ships of His Majesty’s Navy between ships of His Majesty’s Navy and Naval Stations or between a ship of His Majesty’s Navy or a Naval Station, and any other wireless telegraph or telephone station, whether on shore or in any ship.

(4) The expression “His Majesty’s Navy” or “His Majesty’s ships” includes ships being part of the Naval Forces of any part of His Majesty’s Dominions.

(5) The expression “Australia” includes the territorial waters of the Commonwealth of Australia and of any territory of the Commonwealth of Australia.

(6) The expression “military signalling” means signalling by means of any system of wireless telegraphy or telephony between two or more sets of appliances for wireless telegraphy or telephony operated by or on behalf of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth of Australia or between one such set of appliances and any other wireless telegraph or telephone station.

(7) The expression “Minister” means the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919.

Restrictions on use of apparatus.

2. The licensed appliances shall not be used by the licensee or any other person either on behalf or by permission of the licensee for the receipt of messages except messages authorized by this licence.

Licensee to observe regulations as to wireless telegraphy.

3. The licensee shall observe the provisions of any regulations from time to time made under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 so far as the same are applicable to the licensee.

Alteration of appliances.

4 (a) The licensed appliances shall not without the previous consent in writing of the Minister be altered in respect, of any of the particulars mentioned in the first and second schedules hereto.

Indemnity.

(b) The licensee shall at all times indemnify the Commonwealth of Australia and the Minister against all actions, claims, and demands which may be brought or made by any corporation, company, or person in respect of any injury arising from any act licensed or permitted by these presents.

Provision as to secrecy.

5. Neither the licensee nor any person acting on his behalf or by his permission shall divulge to any person (other than properly authorized officials of the Commonwealth of Australia or a competent legal tribunal), or make any use whatever of any message coming to the knowledge of the licensee or any such person as aforesaid and transmitted by naval or military signalling or by any system of wireless telegraphy or telephony provided or maintained by or for the purposes of the Minister or any Department of the Commonwealth of Australia or by any licensee of the Minister.

Licensee not to deliver messages without permission of Minister.

6. The licensee shall not deliver or cause to be delivered to any person any messages received by him by wireless telegraphy or telephony unless the transmission or delivery of such message has been approved by the Minister or by an officer duly authorized by him to approve thereof.

Power of Minister to inspect appliances.

7. Officers of the Royal Australian Naval Radio Service and persons thereunto authorized by the Minister may from time to time and at all reasonable times enter upon the station or other premises in the possession or occupation of the licensee for the purpose of inspecting and may inspect any appliances fixed or being in such places respectively for the purpose of receiving messages by wireless telegraphy or telephony and all other telegraphic or telephonic instruments and appliances fixed or being in such stations respectively and the working and the user of such appliances and telegraphic or telephonic instruments respectively.

Interference with telegraph lines of the Postmaster-General.

8. (a)All appliances used or intended to be used under this licence shall be so established, erected, maintained, and used as not either directly or by reason of the working or user thereof to interfere with the efficient or convenient maintenance working or user of any telegraph line of the Postmaster-General which may from time to time exist or to expose any such line to risk of damage or to risk of interference with the efficient or convenient working or use thereof.

(b) In case any telegraph line of the Postmaster-General shall be damaged or the efficient working or use thereof shall be wholly or partially interrupted or otherwise interfered with and the Chief Electrical Engineer for the time being of the Postmaster-General’s Department shall certify in writing under his hand that such damage interruption or interference has been caused directly or indirectly by any appliances used under this licence, or by anything done by on behalf or with the permission of the licensee in relation thereto, the licensee shall on demand pay to the Postmaster-General all costs that shall be reasonably incurred by him in repairing such damage and in removing or altering such telegraph lines so as to restore the same to efficient working order and in adding thereto or substituting therefor either temporarily or permanently any other telegraph line if the said Chief Electrical Engineer shall certify that such addition or substitution is reasonably required.

(c) For the purpose of this article, the expression “telegraph line” has the same meaning as in the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916 and the expression “telegraph line of the Postmaster-General” includes a telegraph or telephone line belonging to or worked by the Postmaster-General or constructed or maintained by him for any Department of the Commonwealth of Australia or other body or person.

Licence not to be assigned.

9. The licences powers and authorities hereby granted shall not except with the previous consent in writing of the Minister be assigned transferred sub-let or otherwise disposed of or dealt with and the licensee shall not except with a like consent allow any other person or body to participate in any manner whatsoever in the benefits of such licences powers or authorities.

10. (a)If and whenever, in the opinion of the Minister, an emergency shall have arisen in which it is expedient that His Majesty the King shall have control over the station or premises specified in the first and second schedules hereto and the appliances and instruments thereon it shall be lawful for the Minister to call upon the licensee to hand over to him on behalf of His Majesty the King such station premises appliances and instruments or any part or parts thereof and if the licensee shall comply with such demand the Minister or any person thereunto authorized by him may enter upon such station or premises and take possession of and use the same together with all appliances and instruments thereon.

(b) The Minister shall during the period the possession and use of the said station premises appliances and instruments are retained on behalf of His Majesty the King reimburse to the licensee all wages and salaries paid by the licensee to persons employed in connexion with the said station or premises provided that the employment of such persons is necessary for the proper upkeep of the said station or premises and provided further that such wages or salaries are at the same rates as previously paid by the licensee for similar services.

(c) In the event of the licensee refusing to hand over on demand the said station or premises and the appliances and instruments thereon the Minister may immediately thereupon cancel this licence without prejudice to any steps the Governor-General in Council may think fit to take to obtain possession of such station premises appliances or instruments.

Schedules.

11. The technical details of the herein licensed station are contained in the first schedule hereto, and the complete scheme of connexions authorized to be employed is shown in the second schedule hereto.

Licence fee.

12. (a) The licensee shall pay to the Minister for and in respect of the licence hereby granted a fee of Two pounds (£2) for each year or part of a year the licence is in force in respect of the station at which the licensed apparatus is installed.

(b) The fee shall be payable to the Minister annually in advance.

Provision for revocation of licence.

13. The Minister may at any time in his absolute discretion give notice in writing to revoke and determine these presents and to cancel the licence or permission hereby given at the end of twenty-four hours from the time of service of such notice and at the expiration of that period the licence or permission hereby granted shall cease and determine accordingly but without prejudice to any remedy of the Minister under any covenant or provision herein contained on the part of the licensee to be observed and performed.

Proviso as to compensation.

14. In the event of these presents and the licence or permission hereby given being revoked and determined by the Minister under the power hereinbefore contained or any other power hereunto enabling him the licensee shall not be entitled to any compensation or damages by reason of the determination.

15. Nothing in these presents contained shall prejudice or affect the right of the Commonwealth of Australia from time to time to establish erect extend maintain and use any system or systems of telegraphic or telephonic communication (whether of a like nature to that hereby licensed or otherwise) in such manner as it shall in its discretion think fit neither shall anything herein contained prejudice or affect the right of the Commonwealth of Australia from time to time to enter into agreements for or to grant licences relative to the working and user of telegraphs or telephones (whether of a like nature to those hereby licensed or otherwise) or the transmission of messages in any part of Australia by means of wireless telegraphy or telephony or by any other means with or to any person or persons whomsoever upon such terms as it shall in its discretion think fit and (save as in this licence expressly provided) nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the licensee to exercise any of the powers or authorities conferred on or acquired by the Postmaster-General by or under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1912 or by the Minister under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919.

Notices, &c.

16. Any notice request or consent (whether expressed to be in writing or not) to be given by or for the Minister under these presents may be under the hand of the Secretary for the time being to the Department being administered by the Minister and may be served by sending the same by registered letter addressed to the licensee at the usual or last known place of residence or business of the licensee and in such case the time of service shall be deemed to mean the time when in the ordinary course of post it would have been delivered to the licensee at such place and any notice to be given by the licensee under these presents may be served by sending the same by registered letter addressed to such secretary at his official address within the Commonwealth.

In witness whereof the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first hereinbefore written.

 

SCHEDULE ONE.

1.	2.
Names of Station.	Description of Receiving Appliances.

SCHEDULE TWO.

Complete scheme of connexions authorized to be employed in the herein licensed station.

This drawing, purely diagrammatic, shows the circuits authorized to be employed in the receiver.

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 in the presence of—

This licence is accepted by me under the provisions and terms and on the conditions above set out.

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said licensee in the presence of—

 

No.

Dated 19

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

Licence to  to Use Wireless Telegraphy or Telephony for Experimental and Instructional Purposes.

To all to whom these presents shall come, I, the Honorable  the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-19, send greeting:

Whereas of in the State of (hereinafter called “the licensee”), is desirous of establishing, erecting, maintaining, and using a system of wireless telegraphy or telephony as defined in section 2 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919, with the sole object of conducting demonstrations or experiments in wireless telegraphy or telephony: And whereas by reason of the provisions of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916 and of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 it is unlawful to establish, erect, maintain, or use any station or appliance for the purpose of transmitting or receiving messages by means of wireless telegraphy or telephony except under and in accordance with a licence granted in that behalf by the Minister or member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919, and it is also unlawful, save as in the said Acts provided, to transmit telegrams or other communications by telegraph within the Commonwealth of Australia:

And whereas the licensee has made application for this licence:

Now I, the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 aforesaid, in pursuance of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919, and in exercise of all powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby grant to the licensee from the date of these presents until these presents are determined as hereinafter provided, licence and permission—

(i) To establish, erect, maintain, and use at the station specified in the first and second schedules hereto appliances for the purpose of transmitting and receiving messages by means of wireless telegraphy or telephony (hereinafter called “the licensed appliances”), provided that the appliances installed at the station shall be of the character specified in the said first and second schedules, and operated in accordance with the conditions specified.

Provided that the licensed appliances shall be worked and the messages shall be transmitted and received solely for the purpose of conducting demonstrations in wireless telegraphy or telephony at public lectures or conducting experiments in wireless telegraphy or telephony for the advancement of science and for no other purpose whatever.

And I do hereby declare that the said licence and permission is granted on and subject to the following conditions and provisions, which may be altered, added to, or modified hereafter to meet public interests or requirements or emergencies.

Interpretation clause.

1. In these presents (and in the schedules hereto) the following words and expressions shall have the several meanings hereinafter assigned to them unless there be something, either in the subject or context, repugnant to such construction (that is to say):—

(1) The expression “wireless telegraphy” has the same meaning as in the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1913.

(2) The terms “telegraph” and “telegraph line” have the same meaning as in the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916.

(3) The expression “naval signalling” means signalling by means of any system of wireless telegraphy or telephony between two or more ships of His Majesty’s Navy, between ships of His Majesty’s Navy and naval stations, or between a ship of His Majesty’s Navy or a naval station and any other wireless telegraph or telephone station, whether on shore or on any ship.

(4) The expression “His Majesty’s Navy” or “His Majesty’s ships” includes ships being part of the Naval Forces of any part of His Majesty’s Dominions.

(5) The expression “Australia” includes the territorial waters of the Commonwealth of Australia and of any territory of the Commonwealth of Australia.

(6) The expression “military signalling” means signalling by means of any system of wireless telegraphy or telephony between two or more sets of appliances for wireless telegraphy or telephony operated by or on behalf of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth of Australia, or between one such set of appliances and any other wireless telegraph or telephone station.

(7) The expression “Minister” means the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919.

Restrictions on use of apparatus.

2. The licensed appliances shall not be used by the licensee or any other person either on behalf or by permission of the licensee for the transmission or receipt of messages except messages authorized by this licence.

Licensee to regulations as to wireless telegraphy.

3. The licensee shall observe the provisions of any regulations from time to time made under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 so far as the same are applicable to the licensee.

As to interference.

4. (a) The licensed appliances shall be so worked as not to interfere with the working of any wireless telegraph or telephone station established in Australia by or for the purposes of the Minister for the Navy or any Department of the Commonwealth of Australia, or for commercial purposes, and in particular with the transmission or receipt of any messages between or at wireless telegraph or telephone stations established as aforesaid on land and wireless telegraph or telephone stations established on ships at sea. On no account shall His Majesty’s ships be called by means of the licensed appliances.

(b) With a view to preventing such interference as aforesaid the licensee and every person acting on his behalf or by his permission shall comply with by the Minister shall be given to the licensee by the Minister or prescribed by the Minister with respect to avoiding interference between one wireless telegraph or telephone station and another.

(c) The licensed appliances shall not without permission, in writing, from the Minister, or an officer thereunto authorized by him, be altered in respect of any of the particulars mentioned in the first and second schedules hereto.

(d)The licensee shall at all times indemnify the Commonwealth of Australia and the Minister against all actions, claims, and demands which may be brought or made by any corporation, company, or person in respect of any injury arising from any act licensed or permitted by these presents.

Protection of naval and military signalling.

5. (a) The licensee shall not (either by himself or by any person acting on his behalf or by his permission), by the transmission of any message by means of the licensed appliances or otherwise by the use of the licensed appliances, interfere with naval or military signalling.

(b) Whenever the operators of the said station of the licensee perceive, through the medium of the appliances used by them, that naval or military signalling is proceeding, they shall refrain from using the licensed appliances until all indication that naval or military signalling is proceeding shall have ceased.

(c) These provisions for the protection of naval or military signalling shall be construed to be without prejudice to the generality of any other provisions of this licence.

Provision as to secrecy.

6. Neither the licensee nor any person acting on his behalf or by his permission shall divulge to any person (other than properly authorized officials of the Commonwealth of Australia or a competent legal tribunal), or make any use whatever of any message coming to the knowledge of the licensee or any such person as aforesaid, and transmitted by naval or military signalling or by any system of wireless telegraphy or telephony provided or maintained by or for the purposes of the Minister for Navy or any Department of the Commonwealth of Australia or by any licensee of the Minister other than the licensee.

Power of Minister to inspect appliances.

7. Officers of the Royal Australian Naval Radio Service and persons thereunto authorzied by the Minister may from time to time and at all reasonable times enter upon the station or other premises in the possession or occupation of the licensee, for the purpose of inspecting, and may inspect any appliances fixed or being in such places respectively for the purpose of sending and receiving messages by wireless telegraphy or telephony and all other telegraphic or telephonic instruments and appliances fixed or being in such stations respectively and the working and the user of such appliances and telegraphic or telephonic instruments respectively.

Interference with telegraph lines of the Postmaster-General.

8. (a)All appliances used or intended to be used under the licence shall be so established, erected, maintained, and used as not either directly, or by reason of the working or user thereof, so interfere with the efficient or convenient maintenance, working, or user of any telegraph fine of the Postmaster-General which may from time to time exist, or to expose any such line to risk of damage or to risk of interference with the efficient or convenient working or use thereof.

(b) In case any telegraph line of the Postmaster-General shall be damaged or the efficient working or use thereof shall be wholly or partially interrupted or otherwise interfered with, and the Chief Electrical Engineer for the time being of the Postmaster-General’s Department shall certify in writing under his hand that such damage, interruption, or interference has been caused directly or indirectly by any appliances used under this licence, or by anything done by or on behalf or with the permission of the licensee in relation thereto, the licensee shall on demand pay to the Postmaster-General all costs that shall be reasonably incurred by him in repairing such damage and in removing or altering such telegraph lines so as to restore the same to efficient working order, and in adding thereto or substituting therefor either temporarily or permanently any other telegraph line, if the said Chief Electrical Engineer shall certify that such addition or substitution is reasonably required.

(c) For the purpose of this article, the expression “telegraph line” has the same meaning as in the Postand Telegraph Act 1901-1916, and the expression “telegraph line of the Postmaster-General” includes a telegraph or telephone line belonging to or worked by the Postmaster-General or constructed or maintained by him for any Department of the Commonwealth of Australia or other body or person.

Licence not to be assigned.

9. Except with the consent in writing of the Minister the licensee shall not assign, underlet, or otherwise dispose of or admit any other person or body to participate in the benefits of the licences, powers, or authorities hereby granted or any of such licences, powers, or authorities.

Power to take possession of or control appliances upon emergency.

10. (a)If and whenever, in the opinion of the Minister, an emergency shall have arisen in which it is expedient that His Majesty the King shall have control over the transmission and receipt of messages by the licensed appliances, it shall be lawful for the Minister to call upon the licensee to hand over to him on behalf of His Majesty the King so much of the licensed appliances as is within Australia or any part thereof, and if the said licensee shall comply with the demand the Minister or any person authorized by him may enter upon and take possession of the station specified in the first and second schedules and use the same together with all appliances and instruments thereon.

(b) The Minister shall, during the period the possession and use of the said station, appliances, and instruments are retained on behalf of His Majesty the King, reimburse to the licensee all wages and salaries paid by the licensee to persons employed in connexion with the said station, provided that the employment of such persons is necessary for the proper upkeep of the said station, and provided further that such wages or salaries are at the same rates as previously paid by the licensee for similar services.

(c) In the event of the licensee refusing to hand over the said station and appliances on demand, the Minister may immediately thereupon cancel this licence without prejudice to any steps the Governor-General in Council may think fit to take to obtain possession of the said station and appliances.

Schedules.

11. The technical details of the herein licensed station are contained in the first schedule hereto; and the complete scheme of connexions authorized to be employed is shown in the second schedule hereto.

Licence fee.

12. (1) The licensee shall pay to the Minister for and in respect of the licence hereby granted a fee of Two pounds (£2) for each year or part of a year the licence is in force in respect of the station at which the licensed apparatus is installed.

(2) The fee shall be payable to the Minister annually in advance.

Provision for revocation of licence.

13. The Minister may at any time in his absolute discretion by notice in writing revoke and determine these presents and cancel the licence or permission hereby given at the end of twenty-four hours from the time of service of such notice, and at the expiration of that period the licence or permission hereby granted shall cease and determine accordingly, but without prejudice to any remedy of the Minister under any covenant or provision herein contained on the part of the licensee to be observed and performed.

Proviso as to compensation.

14. In the event of these presents and the licence or permission hereby given being revoked and determined by the Minister under the power hereinbefore contained or any other power thereunto enabling him, the licensee shall not be entitled to any compensation or damages by reason of the determination.

Licence not to affect Commonwealth rights.

15. Nothing in these presents contained shall prejudice or affect the right of the Commonwealth of Australia from time to time to establish, erect, extend, maintain, and use any system or systems of telegraphic or telephonic communication (whether of a like nature to that hereby licensed or otherwise) in such manner as it shall in its discretion think fit, neither shall anything herein contained prejudice or affect the right of the Commonwealth of Australia from time to time to enter into agreements for or to grant licences relative to the working and user of telegraphs or telephones (whether of a like nature to those hereby licensed or otherwise) or the transmission of messages in any part of Australia by means of wireless telegraphy or telephony or by any other means with or to any person or persons whomsoever, upon such terms as it shall in its discretion think fit, and (save as in this licence expressly provided) nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the licensee to exercise any of the powers or authorities conferred on or acquired by the Postmaster-General by or under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916 or by the Minister by or under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919.

Notices, &c.

16. Any notice, request, or consent (whether expressed to be in writing or not) to be given or made by or for the Minister under these presents may be under the hand of the Secretary for the time being of the Department being administered by the Minister, and may be served by sending the same by registered letter addressed to the licensee at the usual or last-known place of residence or business of the licensee, and in such case the time of service shall be deemed to mean the time when in the ordinary course of post it would have been delivered to the licensee at such place; and any notice to be given by the licensee under these presents may be served by sending the same by registered letter addressed to such secretary at his official address within the Commonwealth of Australia.

17. The licensee may communicate with any experimental radio-telegraph station provisionally authorized or fully licensed by the Minister for experimental purposes, providing that such communication does not interfere with the conduct of W/T signalling.

In witness whereof the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first hereinbefore written.

SCHEDULE ONE.

 

Character of Appliances.

1.	2.	3.		4.	5.
Name of Licensee and Address of Station.	Description of Transmitting Appliances.	Description of Receiving Appliances.		Wave Length to be employed in Transmitter.	Maximum Watt energy permitted to be employed in Transmitter.
Type of aerial, height, construction.......................
Nature and voltage of primary power....................
Transformer; ratio of windings..............................
Spark gap............................................................
Particulars of transmitting oscillator
Condenser—Capacity of......................................
Form of coupling.................................................
Details of earth connexions...................................

SCHEDULE TWO.

 

Complete scheme of connexions and aerial system authorized to be employed in the herein licensed station.

This drawing, purely diagrammatic, shows the circuits authorized to be employed in both the transmitter and receiver.

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the Minister or Member of the Executive Council for the time being administering the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919 in the presence of—

This licence is accepted by me under the provisions and terms and on the conditions above set out.

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said licensee in the presence of—

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.