Wireless Telegraphy (Ship Station Radio Licence) Regulations, 2006
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Ship Station Radio Licence) Regulations, 2006.
(2) These Regulations will come into force on 1st September 2006
Interpretation
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paragraphs: (1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:
“Act of 1926” means the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926 (No. 45 of 1926);
“Act of 1972” means the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1972 (No. 5 of 1972);
“Act of 2002” means the Communications Regulation Act, 2002 (No. 20 of 2002);
“Apparatus” means apparatus capable of emitting and receiving, or emitting only or receiving only, over paths which are not provided by any material substance constructed or arranged for that purpose, electric, magnetic or electro-magnetic energy, of a frequency not exceeding 3 million megahertz, whether or not such energy serves the conveying (whether they are actually received or not) of communications, sounds, signs, visual images or signals or the actuation or control of machinery or apparatus, and includes any part of such apparatus, or any article capable of being used as part of such apparatus, and also includes any other apparatus which is associated with, or electrically coupled to, apparatus capable of so emitting such energy.
“Authorisation Regulations” means the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Authorisation) Regulations, 2003 ( S.I. No. 306 of 2003 );
“Call sign” means a method for uniquely identifying a vessel;
“Constitution of the International Telecommunications Union” and “Radio Regulations” mean the international convention signed at Geneva on 6 November, 1992 and include any Constitution, Convention or Regulations which may from time to time be enacted or brought into force in substitution for, in amendment of, or in addition to, them;
“Commission” means the Commission for Communications Regulation established under the Act of 2002;
“Harmful interference” means interference which endangers the functioning of a radionavigation service or other safety service or which otherwise seriously degrades obstructs, or repeatedly interrupts any lawfully operating radiocommunications service;
“Irish vessel” means (a) every ship registered in Ireland, and (b) every unregistered ship or other vessel which is usually kept in or which frequents the inland or territorial waters of Ireland , and (c) every ship or vessel not coming within either of the foregoing paragraphs which is for the time being in the inland and/or territorial waters of Ireland and in respect of which no Licence then in force for the possession or working of apparatus for wireless telegraphy has been granted in any other country or state;
“ITU” means the International Telecommunications Union.
“Licence” means a Licence under section 5 of the Act of 1926.
“Licensee” means the holder of a Licence;
“MMSI” means the maritime mobile service identity number uniquely identifying a vessel;
“Radiocommunications Service” means a service involving the transmission, emission, and/or reception of radio waves specified for specific telecommunications purposes;
“Radionavigation service” means a service involving the determination of the position velocity and/or other characteristics of an object, or the obtaining of information related to these parameters, by means of the propagation properties of radio waves and used for the purposes of navigation, including obstruction warning;
“Ship Station” means all apparatus for Wireless Telegraphy for use on board Irish vessels, with the exception of apparatus exempted from section 3 of the Wireless Telegraphy 1926 Act;
“Wireless Telegraphy” has the meaning assigned to it in the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1926 ;
(2) In these Regulations unless the contrary intention appears:
(a) a reference to an enactment or regulation may be construed as a reference to the enactment or regulation as amended or extended by or under any subsequent enactment or regulation;