Section 8: Experimental licences.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, where an application for the grant or renewal of a licence is made to the Commission by a citizen of Nigeria and the Commission is satisfied that the only purpose for which the applicant requires the licence is to enable him to conduct experiments in wireless telegraphy for the purpose of scientific research, the Commission shall not refuse to grant or renew the licence and shall not revoke the licence when granted, and no sum shall be payable under regulations under this Act otherwise than on the issued or renewal of the licence.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section, shall limit the discretion of the Commission as to the terms, provisions or limitation which it attaches to any licence or its power to vary the terms, provisions or limitations of any licence.
(3) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section, shall prevent the Commission from refusing to grant or renew, or from revoking, any licence, if, whether before or after the grant or last renewal of the licence, the applicant has been convicted of any offence under this Part, whether in relation to the same or any other apparatus, or has contravened any of the terms, provisions or limitation of that or any other wireless telegraphy licence granted to him, or has been convicted under section 16 of this Act, of using any apparatus for the purpose of interfering with any wireless telegraphy.
(4) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section, shall prevent the application of the provisions of section 24 of this Act to a holder of an experimental licence granted in pursuance of this section.