SCHEDULES
F1SCHEDULE 1
3 Radio rules.
1
The Board of Trade may make rules (in this Act called “radio rules ”) requiring ships to which this section applies to be provided with radio equipment of such a nature (but not including a radio navigational aid) as may be prescribed by the rules and to maintain such a radio service and to carry such number of radio officers or operators, of such grades and possessing such qualifications, as may be so prescribed ; and the rules may contain provisions for preventing so far as practicable electrical interference by other apparatus on board with the equipment provided under the rules.
2
This section applies to—
a
sea-going ships registered in the United Kingdom;
b
other sea-going ships while they are in the United Kingdom or the territorial waters thereof.
3
Radio rules shall include such requirements as appear to the Board of Trade to implement the provisions of the Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on 17th June 1960 as from time to time amended, so far as those provisions relate to radio telegraphy and radio telephony.
4
Without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this section, radio rules may—
a
prescribe the duties of radio officers and operators, including the duty of keeping a radio log-book ;
b
apply to any radio log-book required to be kept under the rules any of the provisions of any regulations with respect to official log-books made under section 68 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970.
5
If any radio officer or operator contravenes any rules made in pursuance of subsection (4)(a) of this section, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £10 ; and if radio rules are contravened in any other respect in relation to any ship, the owner or master of the ship shall be liable on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding £500, or on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100.
6
If a ship to which this section applies is not provided with radio equipment or radio ofiicers or operators in conformity with radio rules the ship, if in the United Kingdom, may be detained.
6 Radio navigational aids.
1
The Board of Trade may make rules—
a
requiring ships to which this section applies to be provided with such radio navigational aids, other than direction-finders, as may be specified in the rules and prescribing requirements which such radio navigational aids are to comply with ;
b
prescribing requirements which radio navigational aids, other than direction-finders and other than such as are provided in pursuance of rules made under the preceding paragraph, are to comply with when carried in ships to which this section applies ;
c
prescribing requirements which apparatus designed for the purpose of transmitting or reflecting signals to or from radio navigational aids is to comply with if it is apparatus in the United Kingdom or apparatus off the shores of the United Kingdom but maintained from the United Kingdom ;and the requirements prescribed under paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection may include requirements relating to the position and method of fitting of the radio navigational aids.
2
This section applies to—
a
ships registered in the United Kingdom ;
b
other ships while they are within any port in the United Kingdom.
3
to proceed, to sea without carrying such navigational aids as it is required to carry by rules made under subsection (1) of this section or carrying radio navigational aids not complying with rules made under that subsection, the owner or master of the ship shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100.
4
If any person establishes or operates any such apparatus as is mentioned in subsection (1)(c) of this section and the apparatus does not comply with rules made thereunder, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100.
Schs. 1-5 repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(1), 316(2), Sch. 12 (with s. 312(1), Sch. 14 para. 1)