Broadcasting and Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1988
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Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1972. |
19.—Section 2 of the Act of 1972 is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsections for subsection (2): | |
“(2) A person shall not act as a television dealer unless, prior to his so acting, he has given to the Minister a notice in the prescribed form, or in a form to the like effect, containing the following information— | ||
(a) the person's name, and | ||
(b) the place or places where the records which a television dealer is required by this Act to keep will be kept by him and be available for inspection, | ||
and the information when received shall be entered in the register established and maintained under subsection (1) of this section. | ||
(2A) In any proceedings in which a contravention of subsection (2) of this section is alleged, it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove— | ||
(a) that, immediately before the commencement of the Broadcasting and Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1988, apart from sections 16 and 21 thereof, he was a television dealer, | ||
(b) that he gave to the Minister, either before or after the commencement of that Act, the notice required to be so given by this section, and | ||
(c) that such notice contained the information so referred to and was given by him to the Minister not later than thirty days after the defendant started to act as a television dealer.”. |