Aircraft Regulations, 2010

L.N. 456 of 2010

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (REGULATION) ACT

(CAP. 399)

Use of Radiocommunications by Foreign Warships and Service

Aircraft Regulations, 2010

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 36 of the

Electronic Communications (Regulation) Act, the Minister for

Infrastructure, Transport and Communications has made the

following regulations

The title of these regulations is the Use of

Radiocommunciations by Foreign Warships and Service Aircraft

Regulations, 2010.

(1) Any reference in these regulations to “the Act” is a Interpretation.

reference to the Electronic Communications (Regulation) Act, and

to any regulations made thereunder, unless the context otherwise

requires, and subject to the provisions of subregulation (2)

hereof the provisions of article 28 of the Act shall apply to these

regulations.

(2) In these regulations and unless the context

otherwise requires “the Authority” means the Malta

Communications Authority.

(1) No foreign warship or foreign service aircraft

accompanying such ship shall, whilst in any harbour of Malta or

within three miles of Malta without permission first obtained from

the Authority, use its radiocommunications apparatus.

(2) The application for such permission shall give

particulars of the system, including radio frequencies, modes of

emission, bandwidths, times of transmission and transmission

power which the applicant desires to use.

(1) No foreign service aircraft not accompanying Restrictions on foreign

a foreign warship shall, whilst in Malta or within any harbour service aircraft not

of Malta, or within twelve nautical miles of Malta, without warships.

the like permission as set forth in the last preceding regulation

from the Authority, use its radiocommunications or electronic

communications apparatus.

(2) The application for such permission shall give the

particulars set forth in sub-regulation (2) of regulation 3 of these

regulations.

The Authority may, when an application is made to it

in conformity with these regulations, attach to the grant of such

permission conditions -

(a)

providing against interference with any other

station;

(b) requiring that transmission be forthwith

discontinued on a request from the Authority or from any

fixed shore station;

(c) forbidding protracted signalling by the use of

apparatus transmitting other than pure continuous waves.

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