1692
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 49

Log record.
55. The licensee of every transmitting station shall keep a log record showing the hours during which the authorized transmitting apparatus is in operation, the time of each transmission, the station called, the power (anode rating), and the frequency used. In addition, the log shall embody a record of the stations heard and, as far as may be consistent with Regulation 62, the nature of the communications carried on by such stations. This log shall be produced for perusal by any Radio Inspector whenever required.

Competition with Government services.
56. Except as provided in the International Radio-telegraph Convention or in these regulations, or with the special authority of the Minister, a radio-station shall not be used in any way to compete with Government communication services, and shall not transmit or receive radio-communications the transmission or reception of which is calculated, in the judgment of the Minister, to cause loss of revenue to the Post and Telegraph Department. Nevertheless, messages of warning having for their object the preservation of human life, the protection of property, or the detection of crime, may be transmitted without reference to the Minister.

Impersonation.
57. Every person who, by means of a radio-station, impersonates any other radio-station or any other person, or who improperly uses the call sign of another radio-station, commits an offence against these regulations.

False, seditious, &c., transmissions.
58. A licensee or operator of a radio-station shall not transmit or cause or permit to be transmitted any radio-communication of a false or misleading character, and in particular shall not transmit or cause or permit to be transmitted any false or deceptive distress signal or distress call.

59. The licensee or the operator of a radio-station shall not transmit, or cause or permit the transmission of, any radio-communication of a seditious, profane, obscene, libellous, or offensive nature.

Penalty.
60. Any person who acts in contravention of or fails to comply with the requirements of Regulations 57, 58, or 59 hereof commits an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50, or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months.

Secrecy.
61. No licensee or operator of any radio-station shall divulge to any unauthorized person any information whatsoever relating to general public correspondence that may come to his knowledge by reason of the operation of the station.

62. (1) (a) Every licensee, and every operator, agent, or servant of a licensee, and any other person having access to the apparatus in a radio-station, shall, by every means in his power, preserve the secrecy of information relating to public correspondence that may come to his knowledge by reason of the operation of the station; and shall adopt all reasonable precautions to prevent unauthorized persons becoming acquainted therewith.

(b) A licensee or operator, or any other person having access to the apparatus of a radio-station, shall not commit or cause to be committed to writing any public correspondence that may come to his knowledge by reason of the operation of such station.

(2) Nothing in this regulation shall be deemed to prohibit the recording at, or the delivery or transmission from, any station open for public correspondence, of any communication designed and intended to be received at, or delivered or transmitted from, such station.

Publication of information.
63. Except with the permission of the Minister, no person shall commit to writing for the purpose of publication in a newspaper any matter transmitted from any radio-station.

Penalty for divulging public correspondence.
64. (1) Any person who improperly commits to writing or divulges information relating to public correspondence that may come to his knowledge by reason of the operation of any radio-station commits an offence under these regulations, and shall be liable to a fine of £50, or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months.

(2) Nothing in this regulation shall be deemed to prohibit the person duly authorized in that behalf from giving a copy of any telegram or information relating to any telegram to the person or persons entitled thereto, or to properly authorized officials of His Majesty’s Government or of the Minister, or to a competent legal tribunal.

Penalty where no other penalty provided.
65. Any person who acts in contravention of or commits an offence against any of these regulations for which a penalty is not otherwise provided, or who commits any breach of the conditions of a license of which he is the holder, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £10, or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one month.