Wireless Telegraphy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1928. No. 79.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905-1919.

SEP 11 1928

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

Dated the seventh day of August, 1928.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. GIBSON

Postmaster-General.

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Amendment of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1924, No. 101, as amended to this date.)

1. After regulation 14 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

Lights on masts

 “14a. (1) The licensee of any station, the masts of which reach three hundred feet or more above the ground, shall at his own expense install and maintain beacon lights on the top of the masts.

(2) The beacon lights shall be alight from sunset to sunrise and in foggy weather and shall be such as are visible on a dark night of average visibility at a distance of seven miles.”

Adjustment of amount of available revenue payable.

2. Regulation 63 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“63. In the event of—

(a) the termination or cancellation of the licence;

(b) the temporary cessation of the broadcasting of programmes; or

(c) the broadcast service given by the licensee being in the opinion of the Postmaster-General in any manner unsatisfactory,

the Postmaster-General may, in so far as he considers that the circumstances warrant, deduct, and utilize, as he deems fit, any portion of available revenue otherwise payable to the licensee.”

3. (1) After regulation 67 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Deduction from licence fees.

 “67a. In addition to the amount deductable from the licence-fees specified in the last preceding regulation, the Postmaster-General may deduct from the respective licence-fees an amount not exceeding fivepence for each month of the currency, after 1st

1481.—Price 3d.

 

November, 1927, of any such licence issued before 1st January, 1928. Of the amount so deducted the sum of threepence shall be utilized by the Postmaster-General in accordance with clause 8 of the agreement contained in the Schedule to the Wireless Agreement Act 1927, and the balance shall be utilized as the Postmaster-General thinks fit.”

(2) This regulation shall be deemed to have commenced on 1st November, 1927.

4. Regulation 84 of the “Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended—

(a) By omitting from sub-regulation (1) the words and figures—

“Ordinary licence …..27s. 6d.  22s. 6d. 17s. 6d.

Per  per  per

annum.  annum.  annum.

and inserting in their stead the following words and figures:—

“Ordinary licence …..24s.  17s. 6d.  17s. 6d.

per  per  per

annum. annum.  annum.

to be paid in full in advance”; and

(b) by omitting the proviso to sub-regulation (1).

5. Regulation 125 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is repealed.

Wireless telegraphy on foreign ships of war

6. After regulation 137 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations, the following new regulation is inserted:—

“137a. (1) The use of wireless telegraphy appliances on board any foreign ship of war while in any harbour in Australia shall be subject to such rules (whether prohibitive or regulative) as the Governor-General thinks fit to make.

(2) (a)Foreign men-of-war and service aircraft accompanying them lying in a naval port or in any harbour which is close to a naval port shall obtain permission from the Senior Naval Officer at the naval port to use their wireless telegraphy or telephony apparatus, stating system, wavelengths, and times of transmission proposed.

(b)Foreign men-of-war and service aircraft accompanying them lying in any harbour which is not close to a naval port shall conform to the following provisions:—

(i) Transmission on 600 metres is forbidden, except for the purpose of making or answering signals of distress;

(ii) interference with Naval, Army, or Air Force signalling or any fixed short stations shall be avoided;

(iii) transmission shall be discontinued on request from—

(1) any Naval authority;

(2) the Port authorities;

(3) any fixed short station;

(iv) protracted signalling using apparatus transmitting other than pure continuous waves shall be avoided; and

(v) if there is a British or Dominion Fleet or Warship lying in the harbour, the Senior Naval Officer shall be consulted.

 

(3) If at any time an emergency has arisen in which it is expedient that the Commonwealth Government should have control over the transmission of all messages by wireless telegraphy, the Governor-General may by notice in the Gazette prohibit for such period as he thinks necessary the use of wireless telegraphy on board foreign ships in territorial waters.”

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By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.