LawgistThe Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act
1Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933.
1[(2) It extends to the whole of India 2***.]
(3) It shall come into force on such dates3 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
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1. Subs. by s. 3, ibid., for certain words.
2. The words "except the State of Hyderabad", which had been added by the A.O. 1950, omitted by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule.
3. 1st January, 1934; see Gazette of India, 1933, Part I, p. 1131.
All sections
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Prohibition of possession of wireless telegraphy apparatus without license
- 4 Power of Central Government to exempt persons from provisions of the Act
- 5 Licenses
- 6 Offence and penalty
- 7 Power of search
- 8 Apparatus confiscated or having no owner to be property of Central Government
- 9 [Repealed.]
- 10 Power of Central Government to make rules
- 11 Saving of Indian Telegraph Act, 1885
