{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-act-2006/section-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-act-2006/section-79.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/36",
  "legislation_title": "Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-act-2006",
  "path": "section/79",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Broadcasting from prescribed areas of high seas",
  "text": "(1) It is unlawful—\n(a) to make a broadcast that is capable of being received in the United Kingdom, or\n(b) to make a broadcast that causes interference with any wireless telegraphy in the United Kingdom,\nfrom a ship (other than a British-registered ship) while it is within a prescribed area of the high seas.\n(2) If a broadcast is made in contravention of subsection (1), an offence is committed by—\n(a) the owner of the ship from which the broadcast is made;\n(b) the master of the ship; and\n(c) a person who operates, or participates in the operation of, apparatus by means of which the broadcast is made.\n(3) A person commits an offence if he procures a broadcast to be made in contravention of subsection (1).\n(4) The making of a broadcast does not contravene subsection (1) if it is shown to have been authorised under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom.\n(5) “Prescribed” means prescribed for the purposes of this section by an order made by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/36/section/79",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:06.331080+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}