The Deregulation (Wireless Telegraphy) Order 1996

Registration of Television Dealers

4.—(1) Section 1 of the 1967 Act (registration of television dealers) is hereby repealed.

(2) In section 2 of that Act (notification and recording of transactions), in subsection (1), for the words from the beginning to “that notice” there shall be substituted “Subject to subsections (1A) and (2) of this section, every television dealer who, after the end of twenty-eight days from the date on which he became such a dealer”.

(3) In that section, after subsection (1) there shall be inserted —

“(1A) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to a television dealer in whose case the following conditions are satisfied, that is to say —

(a) that he is such a dealer by reason only that he sells or lets, or holds himself out as willing to sell or let, television sets in pursuance of arrangements made by another television dealer; and

(b) that all payments of or towards the price or by way of rent in respect of any television set sold or let by him are received or collected on his behalf by the dealer who arranged for the sale or letting to be made.

(1B) A television dealer in whose case the conditions specified in subsection (1A) of this section cease to be satisfied shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section as having become a television dealer when those conditions ceased to be satisfied in his case”.

(4) In that section, in subsection (2), for “the foregoing subsection” there shall be substituted “subsection (1) of this section”.

(5) In section 4 of that Act (service of notices etc), the following words are hereby repealed, namely —

(a) in subsection (1), the words from “and” to the end, and

(b) in subsection (2), the words “notice or” and “1 or”.

(6) In the Broadcasting Act 1990(1), in Part II of Schedule 18, paragraphs 1(a) and 2 (which are spent in consequence of paragraph (1) above) are hereby repealed.

(1)

1990 c. 42.