Licences for

telegraphy.

1. (1) A person shall not establish any wireless wireless telegraph station, or instal or work any apparatus for wireless telegraphy, in any place or on board any British ship except under and in accordance with a licence granted in that behalf by the Postmaster-General.

(2) Every such licence shall be in such form and for such period as the Postmaster-General may determine, and shall contain the terms, conditions, and restrictions on and subject to which the licence is granted, and any such licence may include two or more stations, places, or ships.

(3) If any person establishes a wireless telegraph station without a licence in that behalf, or instals or works any apparatus for wireless telegraphy without a licence in that behalf, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable, on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding twelve months, and in either case be liable to forfeit any apparatus for wireless telegraphy installed or worked without a licence, but no proceedings shall be taken against any person under this Act except by order of the PostmasterGeneral, the Admiralty, the Army Council, or the Board of Trade.

(4) If a justice of the peace is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for supposing that a wireless telegraph station has been established without a licence in that behalf, or that any apparatus for wireless telegraphy has been installed or worked in any place or on board any ship within his jurisdiction without a licence in that behalf, he may grant a search warrant to any police officer or any officer appointed in that behalf by the Postmaster-General, the Admiralty, the Army Council, or the Board of Trade and named in the warrant, and a warrant so granted shall authorise the officer named therein to enter and inspect the station, place or ship and to seize any apparatus which appears to him to be used, or intended to be used, for wireless telegraphy therein.

(5) Sections six hundred and eighty-four, A.D. 1904. six hundred and eighty-five, and six hundred and eighty-six of the Merchant Shipping Act, 57 & £8 Vict. 1894 (which relate to the jurisdiction of courts c. 60. and justices), and section six hundred and ninety-three of the same Act (which relates to distress for sums ordered to be paid by masters and owners of ships), shall apply to the jurisdiction of courts and justices in respect of ships, and to distress under this Act.

(6) The Postmaster-General may make regulations for prescribing the form and manner in which applications for licences under this Act are to be made, and, with the consent of the Treasury, the fees payable on the grant of any such licence.

(7) The expression "wireless telegraphy' means any system of communication by telegraph as defined in the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1904, without the aid of any wire connecting the points from and at which the messages or other communications are sent and received: Provided that nothing in this Act shall prevent any person from making or using electrical apparatus for actuating machinery or for any purpose other than the transmission of messages.

but

tal purposes,

2.-(1) Where the applicant for a licence Licences for proves to the satisfaction of the Postmaster- experimen General that the sole object of obtaining the &c. licence is to enable him to conduct experiments in wireless telegraphy, a licence for that purpose shall be granted, subject to such special terms, conditions, and restrictions as the Postmaster-General think proper, may shall not be subject to any rent or royalty. (2) Where an applicant for a licence satisfies the Postmaster-General that a wireless telegraph station is to be used solely for the transmission of telegrams which are within the first or second exception from the exclusive privilege of transmitting telegrams conferred upon the Postmaster-General by the Telegraph Act, 1869, a licence for that pur- 32 & 33 Viet. pose, if granted, shall not be subject to any rent or royalty.

(3) It shall be lawful for the PostmasterGeneral, due regard being had to the maintenance and exercise of effective control over wireless telegraphy, to grant special licences at reduced terms for the establishment and working of wireless telegraph stations to be used exclusively for the transmission within the United Kingdom of news to public registered newspapers. A schedule of all reduced rents or royalties imposed by any special licences shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days of the commencement of the session next succeeding the grant of any such licences.

c. 73.

A.D. 1904.

3.-(1) This Act may be cited as the WireShort title less Telegraphy Act, 1904, and may be cited and extent. with the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1904.

Application

of Act to Scotland.

(2) This Act shall extend to the whole of the British Islands and to all British ships in the territorial waters abutting on the coast of the British Islands, and the Royal Courts of the Channel Islands shall register this Act accordingly.

(3) His Majesty in Council may order that this Act shall, subject to any conditions, exceptions, and qualifications contained in the order, apply during the continuance of the order to British ships whilst on the high seas.

(4) A person shall not work any apparatus for wireless telegraphy installed on a foreign ship whilst that ship is in territorial waters otherwise than in accordance with regulations made in that behalf by the PostmasterGeneral, and the Postmaster-General may, by any such regulations, impose penalties recoverable summarily for the breach of any such regulations not exceeding ten pounds for each offence, and may provide for the forfeiture on any such breach of any apparatus for wireless telegraphy installed or worked on such ship. Save as aforesaid nothing in this Act shall apply to the working of apparatus for wireless telegraphy installed on any foreign ship.

4. In the application of this Act to Scotland the expression "misdemeanour" means crime and offence.

Channel

5. In the application of this Act to the A.D. 1904. Channel Islands and the Isle of ManApplication (1)_The lieutenant governor of the Island of of Act to Jersey or the Island of Guernsey, and the Islands and governor, lieutenant governor, or deputy Isle of Man. governor of the Isle of Man, as the case may require, shall be substituted for the Board of Trade :

(2) Offences may be prosecuted, fines recovered, proceedings taken, and search warrants issued in such courts and in such manner as may for the time being be provided in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man by law, or, if no express provision is made, then in and before the courts and in the manner in which the like offences, fines, proceedings, and warrants may be prosecuted, recovered, taken, or issued therein by law, or as near thereto as circumstances admit, and the bailiff or his lieutenant, or any jurat of the Royal Court in the Island of Jersey or the Island of Guernsey, and the judge or any jurat of the Court of Alderney, and the high bailiff or two justices of the peace in the Isle of Man, shall respectively be substituted for a justice of the peace.

6. This Act shall continue in force until the Duration of thirty-first day of July nineteen hundred and Act. six, and no longer, unless Parliament otherwise determines.

Increased duties on certain kinds of tobacco.

3. Short title.

An Act to amend the Law with re-
spect to Customs Duties in the Isle
of Man.
[15th August 1904.]
BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament as-
sembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows:-

1. The duties of Customs payable under section one of the Isle of Man (Customs) Act, 1898, on manufactured tobacco, shall as from the twenty-ninth day of April, nineteen hun61 & 62 Vict. dred and four, be increased in the case of

c. 27.

cigars by sixpence per pound, and in the case of cigarettes by one shilling per pound.

additional

and beer.

2. The additional duties of Customs on Continutobacco, tea, and spirits removed or imported ance of into the Isle of Man, imposed by section one duties on of the Isle of Man (Customs) Act, 1900, and tobacco, ten, the additional duty on ale and beer removed spirits, ale or imported into the Isle of Man, imposed by 63 & 64 Vict. the second paragraph of section two of that c. 31. Act, shall continue to be charged, levied, and paid as from the first day of August, nineteen hundred and four, until the first day of August, nineteen hundred and five.

3. This Act may be cited as the Isle of Short title. Man (Customs) Act, 1904.

Orders for transferring

2. Short title.

An Act to authorise the transfer to the Secretary for Scotland of certain powers and duties under the Acts relating to Reformatory and Industrial Schools. [15th August 1904.]

BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as. sembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. (1) The Secretary of State may, with to Secretary the concurrence of the Treasury and the for Scotland Secretary for Scotland, make orders transpowers ferring to, or making exerciseable by, the

certain

and indus

Secretary for Scotland all or any of the relating to powers and duties of the Secretary of State reformatory under any of the Acts, general or local, re- trial schools. lating to reformatory and industrial schools, so far as those powers and duties relate to or are exerciseable in Scotland.

c. 66.

(2) Orders made under this section shall be forthwith laid before Parliament, and the Rules Publication Act, 1893, shall, notwith- 56 & 57 Vict. standing subsection five of section one of that Act, apply to them as statutory rules, and publication in the Edinburgh Gazette of the notice required by the said section one shall be requisite in addition to publication in the London Gazette.

2. This Act may be cited as the Secretary Short title. for Scotland Act, 1904, and may be cited with the Secretary for Scotland Acts, 1885 to 1889.