Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
(3) The technical requirements prescribed in respect of any apparatus shall be such as appear to the
Secretary of State to be appropriate for the purpose
of minimising so far as practicable the risk of interference, arising from the lawful use of any other
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apparatus, with any wireless telegraphy the apparatus
to which the requirements apply (or any apparatus
used in connection with it) is designed or adapted
to receive.
(4) The Secretary of State shall not by regulations
under this section prescribe any technical require.
ments unless the Secretary of State is satisfied that
those requirements are compatible with the international obligations of the United Kingdom ; and
where any statutory instrument containing such
regulations contains a statement that the Secretary
of State is so satisfied, that statement shall be evidence
(and, in Scotland, sufficient evidence) of that fact.
(5) Subject to subsection (6) of this section, any
person who in the course of business(a) sells otherwise than for export or offers for
sale otherwise than for export any apparatus which does not comply with the technical requirements applicable to it under
regulations made under this section ; or
(b) lets on hire or offers to let on hire any such
apparatus or
(c) indicates (whether by display of the apparatus or by any form of advertisement) his
willingness to do anything in relation to
any such apparatus that falls within paragraph (a) or (b) above ;
shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(6) In proceedings for an offence under this section
brought against any person other than one who in
the course of business has manufactured, assembled
or imported the apparatus to which the proceedings
relate it shall be a defence for the accused to show
that he did not know and could not with reasonable
care have ascertained that the apparatus did not
comply with the requirements in question.".
79-0) This
to-
section applies
Seizure of
apparatus and
indictable offence under the 1949 Act ;
utstedd inroperty
(b) any offence under section 1(1) of that Act other than one
consisting in the installation or use, otherwise than committing
under and in accordance with a wireless telegraphy certain
(a) any
offences under
the 1949 Act.