STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 167.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905-1936.*

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 1905-1936.

Dated this sixteenth day of July, 1941.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

Amendments of Wireless Telegraphy Regulations.†

Special licences.

1. Regulation 44 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended by inserting, after the word “shall”, the words “, unless otherwise prescribed”.

Licence fees.

2.Regulation 77 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the words “per annum” (wherever occurring), the words “or portion thereof”.

3.After regulation 80 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Receiving equipment in hotels.

“80a.—(1.) The keeper of any hotel, inn, boarding house or lodging house who has on his premises—

(a) a master receiving equipment, capable of being utilized for the reception of broadcast programmes or other wireless signals, which is connected, or capable of being connected, by wires to a receiving appliance in any room occupied, or available for occupation, by any lodger or tenant; or

(b) any other receiving appliance capable of being so utilized which is installed in any such room,

shall be in possession of a current Broadcast Listener’s Licence in respect of every such master receiving equipment and a current Special Broadcast Listener’s Licence in respect of every such receiving appliance in any such room.

“(2.) The fee payable in respect of each such Special Broadcast Listener’s Licence or any renewal thereof shall be Ten shillings per annum or portion thereof.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on      , 1941.

† Statutory Rules 1924, No. 101, as amended by Statutory Rules 1925, No. 123; 1926, No. 114; 1927, Nos. 3, 24 and 63; 1928, Nos. 79 and 129; 1929, No. 81; 1930, No. 113; 1933, No. 136; 1934, No. 99; 1935, Nos. 104 and 120; 1936, No. 90; 1937, Nos. 102 and 112; 1938. No. 24; 1939, No. 156; and 1940, Nos. 94 and 181.

1549.—15/2.5.1941.—Price 3d.

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation—

‘keeper’, in relation to an hotel, inn, boarding house or lodging house, includes any person who, for reward, receives any person to lodge therein, either on his own behalf or as manager or otherwise on behalf of any other person;

‘lodging house’ means any premises, whether furnished or unfurnished, where lodging or sleeping accommodation is provided for reward, and includes a flat.

“(3.) Unless otherwise prescribed, the provisions of these Regulations shall apply in relation to a Special Broadcast Listener’s Licence granted under this regulation as they apply in relation to a Broadcast Listener’s Licence.”.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.