RADIO SERVICE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 246, 14 September 1935, Page 3

RADIO SERVICE

REGULATIONS AMENDED. WELLINGTON, Sept. 13. Comprehensive regulations amending the law as to radio communication have been gazetted and immediately come into force. Many of the new regulations deal with technicalities, but several are of general public interest. It is now provided that apparatus at licensed transmitting stations must he worked only by a person or persons holding a certificate issued by the Minister. Before any certificate can bo granted, tlie applicant must sign a declaration that be will preserve the secrecy of correspondence. A new regulation provides that no operator or licensee of any radio station shall divulge to any unauthorised person any information whatsoever relating to general public correspondence.

Except with the authority of tlie Minister, neither the licensee nor operator of a mobile station nor any other person shall knowingly receive or permit to be knowingly received by the operation of such radio station any radio communication not intended by the transmitting station for reception at the first-mentioned station.

Any person who improperly commits to writing or divulges information relating' to public correspondence that may come to his knowledge bv reason of the operation of any radio station commits an offence under these regulations, and shall bo liable to a tine of £SO.

Nothing in this regulation shall be deemed to prohibit a person duly authorised in that behalf from giving a copy of any telegram or information relating to any telegram to the person or persons entitled thereto, or to properly authorised officials of His Majesty’s Government, or to a competent legal tribunal. Any person who acts in contravention of or commits an offence against any of these regulations for which a penalty is not otherwise provided, or who commits any breach of the conditions of a license of which lie is tlie holder, shall be liable to a tine not exceeding £lO. There are several regulations dealing with aircraft radio communication and it is now provided that a candidate desiring to qualify for service in aircraft must, in addition to passing the usual examination, fulfil any special requirements of the Director of Air Services relating to aircraft radio services.

The power to bo used by. amateur stations shall iu no circumstances exceed 100 watts anode rating.