members of the public or to any person of apparatus for telecommunication either within the Colony or with any place outside the Colony.
Application to Crown. 3. Save as otherwise expressly provided, this Ordinance does not bind the Crown or apply to any means of telecommunication established or maintained by the Crown or to any apparatus for telecommunication possessed or used by the Crown for the purpose of or in connexion with any such means of telecommunication.
Saving of Crown rights. 4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the Crown from establishing and maintaining any means of telecommunication to the exclusion of all other persons.
PART II.
Appointment of Telecommunications Authority.
Appointment of Telecommunications Authority. 5. The Governor may appoint such public officer as he thinks fit to be the Telecommunications Authority for the purposes of this Ordinance.
Delegation of powers. 6. The Authority may, in writing, delegate to any public officer, either generally or for any particular occasion and either by name or by reference to a public office, such of his powers and functions under this Ordinance as he considers necessary:
Provided that no delegation made hereunder shall preclude the Authority from exercising or performing at any time any of the powers or functions so delegated.
PART III.
Control of telecommunications.
Power of Governor in Council to grant licences. 7. The Governor in Council and, subject to regulations made under section 37, the Authority may, in accordance with this Ordinance, grant to such persons as they think fit licences to establish and maintain any means of telecommunication and to possess and use apparatus for radiocommunication or any apparatus of any kind that generates and emits radio waves.
Prohibition of establishment and maintenance of means of telecommunication, etc., except under licence. 8. (1) Save under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Governor in Council or with the appropriate licence granted by the Authority, no person shall in the Colony or on board any British ship or aircraft that is registered in the Colony—
- (a) establish or maintain any means of telecommunication; or
- (b) possess or use any apparatus for radiocommunication or any apparatus of any kind that generates and emits radio waves notwithstanding that the apparatus is not intended for radiocommunication;
