Cap. 173 Rev. 1985 Subsidiary Legislation Telecommunications 8-57 3. The Interpretation Act 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament. 4. This Order may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Colonial Ships and Aircraft) Order, 1954, and shall come into operation on the 21st day of April 1954. ee (COLONIAL THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT) REGULATIONS, 1954 1.—(1) In these Regulations the expression “Act” means the Wireless Telegraph Act, 1949, the expression “The British Islands” means the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, and other expressions have the same meaning as they have in the Act. (2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament. 2. The application of sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Act to stations and apparatus for wireless telegraphy on board any British seagoing ship or British aircraft which is registered in any colony, British protectorate or British protected state, or registered under the law of any other country or territory outside the British Islands which is for: the time being administered by Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, but which is not for the time being in or over the British Islands or the territorial waters adjacent thereto, shall be subject to the limitations contained in these Regulations. 3. The said sections shall not apply to any station or apparatus for wireless. telegraphy on board any ship or aircraft which is for the time being in or over the colony, protectorate, state, country or territory in which or under the law of which it is registered, or the territorial waters adjacent thereto. 4. No person who uses any station or apparatus for wireless telegraphy on board any such ship or aircraft while it is outside the limits of the British Islands, such colony, protectorate, state, country or territory as aforesaid, and the territorial waters respectively adjacent thereto, shall be deemed thereby to commit an offence under section one or section three of the Act if such use is in accordance with the provisions of a valid licence for the use of the station or apparatus on board the ship or aircraft, granted by the proper authority in the colony, protectorate, state, country or territory in which or under the law of which the ship or aircraft is registered. c 5. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of June 1954, and may be cited as “The Wireless Telegraphy (Colonial Ships and Aircraft) Regulations, 1954.” vam 2 Controlled by Ministry of Communications, Transport and Works