ABSTRACT

Park J: These two defendants appeal by way of case stated from Hertfordshire Justices sitting at St Albans against convictions on 15 January 1975 of four offences of incitement to use unlicensed apparatus for wireless telegraphy, contrary to s 1(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949. That section, as amended, provides, inter alia:

No person shall ... use any apparatus for wireless telegraphy except under the authority of a licence in that behalf granted by the Secretary of State ... and any person who ... uses any apparatus for wireless telegraphy except under and in accordance with such a licence shall be guilty of an offence ...