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RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1983 No. 130, 1983 - SECT 23

Radiocommunications transmitter not to be operated, &c., without transmitter licence or temporary permit

23. (1) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, operate, or have in his
possession for the purpose of operation, a radiocommunications transmitter
except in accordance with a transmitter licence or a temporary permit.
(2) Without limiting the generality of the expression ''reasonable excuse'' in
sub-section (1), it is a reasonable excuse if a person operated a
radiocommunications transmitter, or had a radiocommunications transmitter in
his possession, in the honest belief that that operation or possession was
reasonably necessary for the purpose of-

   (a)  securing the safety of a vessel or aircraft that was in danger;

   (b)  dealing with an emergency involving a serious threat to the
        environment; or

   (c)  dealing with an emergency involving risk of death of, or injury to,
        persons, or risk of substantial loss of, or substantial damage to,
        property.

Penalty: $2,000 or imprisonment for 12 months. 


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