Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1972
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Offences and penalties. |
10.—(1) A person who— | |
(a) without reasonable cause or excuse, fails to comply with any of the requirements of section 2 , 3 or 4 of this Act or a requirement of an order under section 5 of this Act, or | ||
(b) in purported compliance therewith— | ||
(i) furnishes any information which to his knowledge is false in a material respect, or | ||
(ii) makes or causes to be made or knowingly allows to be made any record which to his knowledge is false in a material respect, | ||
shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection. | ||
(2) A person who— | ||
(a) sells, lets on hire or manufactures any apparatus for wireless telegraphy in contravention of section 7 of this Act, | ||
(b) imports any such apparatus in contravention of the said section 7, | ||
(c) contravenes or fails to comply with any term or condition subject to which a licence is granted to him by the Minister under the said section 7, or | ||
(d) contravenes or fails to comply with any special condition subject to which, by virtue of section 8 of this Act, a licence is deemed to have been granted to him by the Minister under the Principal Act, | ||
shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection. | ||
(3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding— | ||
(a) in case the offence relates to a requirement of an order under the said section 5, twenty-five pounds, and | ||
(b) in any other case, one hundred pounds. | ||
(4) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) of this section shall be liable on summary conviction— | ||
(a) in the case of a first such offence, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and | ||
(b) in the case of a second or subsequent such offence, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, | ||
and also, in every case, forfeiture of all the apparatus in respect of which the offence was committed. | ||
(5) If a person is convicted of failing to comply with a requirement mentioned in subsection (1) of this section and the failure to comply with the requirement continues after the conviction, that person shall be guilty of a further offence of failing to comply with the requirement and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. |