# Merchant Shipping Act 1970, Paragraph 3: Radio rules.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/36/schedule/1/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1970/schedule-1/paragraph-3
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