45 1926

Next (PART I WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND SIGNALLING)
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No. 45/1926:

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT, 1926

AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE REGULATION AND CONTROL OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ON LAND, AT SEA, AND IN THE AIR, AND FOR THE REGULATION AND CONTROL OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF VISUAL AND SOUND SIGNALLING STATIONS, AND FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE BROADCASTING STATIONS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, SIGNALLING, AND BROADCASTING RESPECTIVELY.

[24th December, 1926.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

PRELIMINARY

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1. —This Act may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926 .

[GA] Definitions.

2. —In this Act—

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the expression "the Minister" means the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs;

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the expression "wireless telegraphy" means and includes any system of communicating messages, spoken words, music, images, pictures, prints, or other communications, sounds, signs, or signals by means of radiated electro-magnetic waves originating in an apparatus or device constructed for the purpose of originating such communications, sounds, signs, or signals;

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the expression "apparatus for wireless telegraphy" means apparatus for sending and receiving or for sending only or for receiving only messages, spoken words, music, images, pictures, prints, or other communications, sounds, signs, or signals by wireless telegraphy and includes any part of such apparatus and any article primarily designed for use as part of such apparatus and not capable of being conveniently used for any other purpose;

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the word "broadcast" means the transmitting, relaying or distributing by wireless telegraphy of broadcast matter;

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the expression "broadcasting station" means a building or other place fitted and equipped for broadcasting;

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the expression "broadcast matter" means and includes any lectures, speeches, news, reports, advertisements, recitations, dramatic entertainments, and other spoken words and any music (whether vocal or instrumental) and other sounds approved by the Minister as suitable for being broadcasted from a broadcasting station maintained under this Act;

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the expression "signalling station" means any fixed or not easily movable apparatus for signalling by means of visible signals or for signalling by means of audible signals.