STATUTORY RULES.
1918. No. 164.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905-1915.
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 Telegraphy Act 1905-1915, to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this twenty-sixth day of June, 1918.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
A. POYNTON,
for Minister of State for the Navy.
Amendment of Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 1916.
(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 212, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, No. 136, and Statutory Rules 1918, No. 17.)
1. Regulation 19 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended—
(a) By omitting sub-regulation (2) thereof and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—
“(2) Certificates of competency shall only be issued to natural-born British subjects both of whose parents are natural-born British subjects:
Provided that—
(a) a certificate of competency shall not be issued to any person who, or either of whose parents, has at any time been a subject of a country with, which the United Kingdom is now at war; and
(b) in the case of a person who, or either of whose parents, has, at any time, been a subject, or, a citizen, as the case may be, of a country which is an ally of Great Britain in the present war, or which has remained neutral during the present war, a certificate of competency may be issued or withheld by the Naval Board as the Naval Board determines according to the merits of the case.
“(2a.) Certificates of competency shall be of two classes, namely:—
(a) 1st class—issued to persons over eighteen years of age capable of receiving and transmitting by sound at a speed which must not be less than twenty words per minute; and
(b) 2nd class—issued to persons over eighteen years of age capable of receiving and transmitting by sound at a speed which must not be less than twelve words per minute”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“(4.) If a person to whom a certificate of competency has been issued by the Naval Board—
(a) is convicted of a criminal offence; or
(b) is, on account of incompetence, or for any other reason, considered by the Naval Board to be unsuitable to continue to hold the certificate,
the Naval Board may withdraw, cancel or suspend the certificate.”
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