Cap. 173
Telecommunications
14
Ed. 1978
aircraft the master or person in charge of such vessel or aircraft shall, without
prejudice to the liability of any other person, be guilty of such offence:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply in relation to the use by a
passenger on board a vessel or aircraft of any radio-communication station not
designed or adapted for emission (as opposed to reception) which isi not part of the
radio-communication station of the ship or aircraft.
Admissibility of transcript message in judicial proceedings
32. The transcript of every message after transmission shall before delivery
thereof to a person to whom the same is addressed be stamped or initialled by the
official receiving the same for delivery, and such transcript message, purporting to
have been so stamped or initialled, shall be admissible in every court and in every
judicial proceeding as prima facie evidence of the matter therein contained being
the same as that stated in the original message left for transmission, and of such
original message having been duly signed and delivered for transmission by the
person by whom the same purports to be signed, and it shall not be necessary to
prove the signature of the person purporting to have signed such original message
or that the same was left at any telecommunication office for transmission, nor to
prove the stamp or initials of the official receiving such transcript for delivery.
33.—(1)
Exemption
The provisions of this Act, other than the provisions of regulations
made under paragraphs (g) or (h) of subsection (1) of section 9, shall not apply to
any foreign vessel or aircraft.
(2) A licence shall not be required under this Act in respect of any radiocommunication station being part of the radio-communication apparatus of a
British vessel registered in a port outside Fiji or of a British aircraft registered
outside Fiji where such radio-communication station is licensed by a competent
authority in the country of registration.
(3) Nothing in this Act shall apply in respect of any telecommunication, other
than radio-communication, contained wholly within a building or part of a building
where such telecommunication is owned and operated by a person occupying that
building or part of a building for his sole use and interest.
Inspection of radio-communication station
34. The telecommunication authority or any person authorised in writing by
him on that behalf shall have the right at all reasonable hours to inspect any radiocommunication station in respect of which a person is licensed under this Act.
Inspection of licence
35. Every person who is required to possess a licence under this Act shall
exhibit his licence for inspection on demand by the telecommunication authority.
36.—(1)
The
Compounding of offences
telecommunication
authority
may,
if he is satisfied
that any
_ person has committed an offence in connexion with a radio-communication station
cece
not being a station adapted for emission (as opposed to reception), accept from
such person a sum of money by way of compensation for such offence:
Provided that such compensation shall not exceed twice the sum payable fora
receiving licence for such radio-communication station.
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