WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT

Section 6: Grant of licences.

1966Section 6 of 30Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1)
The Commission may grant licences for the purposes of this Act in the prescribed form or in such other for any particular case as he may approve and may renew licenses so granted.
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(2) The grant or renewal of a licence shall be in the discretion of the Commission.
(3) A licence may be issued subject to such terms, provisions and limitations as the Commission may think fit, including in particular in the case of a licence to establish a station, limitations as to the position and nature of the station, the purposes for which, the circumstances in which, and the person by whom the station May be used, and the apparatus which may be installed or used therein, and, in the case of any other licence, limitation as to the apparatus which be installed or used, and the places where, the purposes for which, the circumstances in which and the persons by whom the apparatus may be used.
(4) A licence shall, unless previously revoked, continue in force for such period as may be specified in the licence.
(5)
A licence may be revoked, or the terms, provisions or limitations thereof varied, by a notice in writing of the Commission served on the holder of the licence or by a general notice applicable to licences of the class to which the licence in question belongs published in the Federal Gazette.
(6) Where a licence has expired or has been revoked, it shall be the duty of the person to whom the licence was issued, and of every other person in whose possession or under whose control the licence may be, to cause the licence to be surrendered to the Commission if required by the Commission to do so, and any person who without reasonable excuse fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to a licence relating solely to apparatus not designed or adapted for emission (as opposed to reception).
(7) Nothing in this section shall authorise the inclusion in any licence relating solely to apparatus not designed or adapted for emission (as opposed to reception), of any term or provision requiring any person to concede any form of right of entry into any private dwelling house.

Cite this section

Section 6, WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT (1966).

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