USE OF RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS BY FOREIGN WARSHIPS AND SERVICE AIRCRAFT REGULATIONS

USE OF RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS BY

FOREIGN WARSHIPS AND SERVICE AIRCRAFT

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 399.33

USE OF RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS BY FOREIGN

WARSHIPS AND SERVICE AIRCRAFT

REGULATIONS

15th October, 2010

LEGAL NOTICE 456 of 2010.

The title of these regulations is the Use of

Radiocommunications by Foreign Warships and Service Aircraft

Regulations.

(1) Any reference in these regulations to "the Act" is a

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) the

provisions of article 28 of the Act shall apply to these regulations.

(2) In these regulations and unless the context otherwise

r eq uires "the Auth ority" m eans t he Malta Comm unication s

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 a foreign

warship shall, whilst in Malta or within any harbour of Malta, or

within twelve nautical miles of Malta, without 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 regulation 3(2).

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.