{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-testing-and-development-under-suppressed-radiation-conditions-exemption-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-testing-and-development-under-suppressed-radiation-conditions-exemption-regulations-1989/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1842",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Testing and Development Under Suppressed Radiation Conditions) (Exemption) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-testing-and-development-under-suppressed-radiation-conditions-exemption-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations –\n“the Act” means the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949;\n“apparatus” means wireless telegraphy apparatus; and “relevant apparatus” means apparatus to which these Regulations apply;\n“authorised person” means any person authorised by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Act, the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 and the Telecommunications Act (1984);\n“field strength” means the magnitude of a component of the electric or magnetic field;\n“premises” includes a vehicle, vessel or aircraft;\n“spurious emission” means an emission –\n(a) on a frequency which is outside the necessary bandwidth; and\n(b) the level of which may be reduced without affecting the corresponding transmission of information,\nand, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, includes harmonic emissions, parasitic emissions, intermodulation products and frequency conversion products;\n“station” means a station for wireless telegraphy; and “relevant station” means a station to which these Regulations apply;\n“suppressed radiation conditions” means conditions under which the electromagnetic energy emitted by any station or apparatus is suppressed, reduced or contained at or to such a level that it is incapable, under all reasonably foreseeable operational conditions, of causing interference with any station or apparatus which is situated outside the boundary of the premises in which the first mentioned station or apparatus is situated; and\n“testing or development” includes:\n(a) modifying, servicing or repairing, and\n(b) scientific research, training, instruction or experimentation in radio theory or practice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 72. The relevant amendments to the Wireless Telegraphy Acts of 1949 and 1967 are contained in section 3 of the Post Office Act 1969, Part VI of the Telecommunications Act 1984 and S.I. 1974/691, article 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1842/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:36:21.168199+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."
}