MAR. 12.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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Regulations for Radio Broadcasting Stations and the Sale of Radio Apparatus.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of March, 1925.

Present:

His Excellency THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him
by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, and amendments made thereto,
His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations in connection
with the establishing and operation of broadcasting stations, and the sale
of apparatus for radio-telegraphy; doth hereby revoke all previous regulations of similar import; and doth direct that this Order in Council shall
have effect on and after the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-five.

REGULATIONS.

PART I.--GENERAL.

1. Short Title and Interpretations.

2. THESE regulations may be cited as the Broadcasting Regulations, 1925.

3. In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“Admiralty” means the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiralty of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

“Agreement” means the agreement entered into by the Minister with a person or company in pursuance of subsection (2) of section 6 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1924:

“Amateur Radio Regulations, 1925,” means the Regulations for Radio Receiving, Amateur Transmitting and Receiving, and Experimental Stations which were published in the New Zealand Gazette on the fifth day of March, 1925:

“Antenna” means the electrical conductor or system of conductors used for receiving or emitting electro-magnetic waves:

“Apparatus” means and includes all plant, machinery, instruments, or material designed and intended for use in connection with radio telegraphy:

“Broadcasting” means the transmission by radio-telegraphy of approved programmes of matters of entertainment, instruction, or information of general interest capable of being received by apparatus of a kind for the installation and use of which licenses are issued in pursuance of the Amateur Radio Regulations, 1925:

“Broadcasting station” means a radio station licensed to broadcast for general information certain classes of radio communications:

“Continuous waves” means waves which, after reaching the steady state, are periodic—i.e., the successive oscillations are identical:

“Deputy Radio Inspector” or “Assistant Radio Inspector” means such officer or officers of the Post and Telegraph Department as may, with the general approval of the Minister, be deputed from time to time by the District Radio Inspector to act on his behalf:

“District Radio Inspector” means the District Telegraph Engineer of the district in which the radio station is situated:

“Experimental station” means a radio station licensed for the transmission and reception of radio communications intended to promote investigations of a scientific character:

“Government station” means any radio station at which radio communications are transmitted or received by means of radio-telegraphy, and which is operated by any Government Department or by the Admiralty:

“Licensee” means any person, association, or corporation to whom a broadcasting station license or a radio dealer’s license is issued in pursuance of these regulations:

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