UNITED KINGDOM

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY REGULATION, 1912

No. IX. Of 1912

[L.S.] 
BICKHAM ESCOTT,
High Commissioner.
KING’S REGULATION

TO GOVERN THE USE OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC.

Made by His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific in accordance with the provisions of the Pacific Order in Council, 1893.
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In the name of His Majesty, George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.

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Short title.
1. This Regulation may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy Regulation, 1912.

Repeals Regulation No. V of 1907.
2. The Wireless Telegraphy Regulation, 1907, is hereby repealed. 

License to establish and use wireless telegraphy apparatus.
3.-(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to establish, install, use any apparatus for the purpose of electrical communication by means of wireless telegraphy in any protectorates, islands, or places within the jurisdiction of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific specified in the schedule hereto without a license to do so first obtained from the said High Commissioner.

(2) A license under this section shall be subject to such terms and conditions as be prescribed by any rules made under this Regulation, and to such other terms and conditions as the High Commissioner may from time to time think fit to prescribe.

Power of High Commissioner to make rules under this Regulation.
4. The High Commissioner may make rules from time to time  to carry out the provisions of this Regulation and in particular to regulate the use of apparatus for wireless telegraphy on board merchant ships, whether British or foreign vessels, while in the territorial waters of the protectorates, or islands, or places aforesaid.

Penalties.
5. Any person who contravenes the provisions of this Regulation, or of any rules made hereunder, or fails to observe and perform the terms and conditions of a license granted by the High Commissioner hereunder or prescribed by any rules aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds and to the forfeiture of any apparatus established, installed, or used for the purpose aforementioned.

Regulation not to apply to the New Hebrides 
6. This Regulation shall not apply to the islands of the Pacific Ocean known as the New Hebrides, including the Banks Islands and Torres Islands.
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SCHEDULE.

The British Solomon Islands Protectorate. 
The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate. 
The Union (Tokelau) Islands.
The Phoenix Islands. 
Panning Island. 
Washington Island. 
Christmas Island. 
Pitcairn Island.

All other islands in the Western Pacific not being within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Australia or any of the States thereof, or of the Dominion of New Zealand, or of any civilised Power.
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Published and exhibited in the Public Office of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific this third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

By Command,

C. H. HART-DAVIS
Secretary to His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.
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