54 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-TELECOMMUNICATION-APR. 8 , 1938 telegrams thus received like those filed in its own station. (See also article 7 of the Additional Regulations.) [658] (2) However, when the mobile station can choose among several land stations situated at approximately the same distance, it must give the preference to the station located on the territory of the country of destination or of normal transit of the radiotelegrams. When the station chosen is not the nearest, the mobile station must cease working or change the type or frequency of emission upon the first request made by the land station of the service concerned which is actually the nearest, when this request is based upon the interfer- ence which the work in question causes to the latter. [659] §2. Mobile stations using either type-Al waves or type-A2 or -A3 waves, outside the band 365 to 515 kc (822 to 583 m) must, as a general rule, give preference to the land station located on the territory of the country of destination or of the country which it appears could most reasonably effect the transit of the radiotelegrams. [660] §3. If the sender of a radiotelegram filed in a mobile station has designated the land station to which he desires his radiotelegram sent, the mobile station must, in some cases, wait until the conditions specified in the preceding paragraphs are fulfilled, in order to make the transmission to the designated land station. ARTICLE 29 Accounting for Radiotelegrams A. ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNTS [661] §1. In principle, land and on-board charges shall not enter into Accounting. international telegraph accounts. [662] §2. Governments reserve the right to make different arrange- ments among themselves and with the private enterprises concerned, with a view to the adoption of other provisions for accounting, notably the adoption, so far as possible, of the system in which land and on- board charges follow radiotelegrams from country to country through the telegraph accounts. Such arrangements shall be subject to a prior agreement between the administrations concerned. [663] §3. In the absence of a different arrangement, in accordance with the provisions of §2 above [No. 662], accounts for these charges shall be set up each month by the administrations to which the land stations are subject and sent by them to the administrations concerned. [664] §4 (1) Where the land stations are not operated by the admin- istration of the country, the operating agency may be substituted for the administration of the country, so far as accounts are concerned. [665] (2) The radiotelegrams covered in article 20, §9 [No. 470] may Ank. p 121 . in some cases be entered in an account intended for the administration to which the ship is subject. 1557
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