Section 5: Licenses

5. Licenses.—2[(1)] 3[The Director­General, Pakistan Post Office, or an officer authorized by him in this behalf,] shall be the authority competent to issue licenses to possess wireless telegraphy apparatus under this Act, and may issue licenses in such manner, on such conditions and subject to such payments as may be prescribed 4[:] 5[Provided that where, by an agreement with the Pakistan Television Corporation Limited, the 6[Federal Government] appoints the Corporation to be its agent in the matter of issuing licenses to possess television receiving apparatus, 6[broadcast receiving satellite antenna] 7[ and video recording or reproducing apparatus] the authority competent to issue licenses to possess such apparatus shall be the Chairman of that Corporation or a person authorized by him in this behalf, who may issue licenses in such manner, on such conditions and subject to such payments as may be prescribed.] 9[(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 4 of the Telegraph Act, 1885 (XIII of 1885), no licence under that Act shall be necessary for the possession of a television receiving apparatus 3[or television broadcast receiving satellite antenna] for possessing which a licence issued under this Act is for the time being in force.]

Effective date: 1933-01-01

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