Wireless Telegraphy Acts
Wireless Telegraphy Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the Republic of Ireland, South Africa and the United Kingdom relating to wireless telegraphy.
The Wireless Telegraphy Acts are laws regulating radio communications in the United Kingdom.
Wireless telegraphy as a concept is defined in British law as "the sending of electro-magnetic energy over paths not provided by a material substance."
The term telegraphy, although best known in relation to the electric telegraph, relates to the sending of messages over long-distances. Wireless telegraphy is differentiated from electrical telegraphy in that the messages are transmitted via electromagnetic means rather than via a physical electrical cable connection.
The current supervisor of the UK's electromagnetic spectrum is the communications regulator, Ofcom.
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Cape Colony (South Africa)
- The Electric Telegraphs Amendment Act 1902
Ireland
- The Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904 and 1906
- The Wireless Telegraphy Act 1926
- The Wireless Telegraphy Act 1956
- The Broadcasting Authority Act 1960
- The Broadcasting offences Act 1968
- The Wireless Telegraphy Act 1972
- The Broadcasting Authority Act 1976
- The Broadcasting And Wireless Telegraphy Act 1988
- The Broadcasting Act 1990
- The Broadcasting Act 2009
United Kingdom
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- The Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967
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- The Telecommunications Act 1984
- The Broadcasting Act 1990
- The Broadcasting Act 1996
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- The Office of Communications Act 2002
- The Communications Act 2003
- The Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006