NEW REGULATIONS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 235, 8 November 1940, Page 5

NEW REGULATIONS

FURTHER EMERGENCY PRECAUTION CONTROLLING MEDICAL equipment WELLINGTON, Friday. The Postmaster-General, the Hon, P. C. Webb, announces that as a further war emergency precaution the Government has found it necessary to assume control over certain wireless transmitting apparatus, in private ownership, and also diathermy equipment as used by Doctors, Hospitals, Universities, etc. Regulations entitled "The Radio Emergency Regulations. 1940," which give the Government the necessarypower and which will bo administered by the Post Office, were gazetted torday • As these regulations provide for the licensing of the apparatus referred to within a period of three weeks from to-day, owners of equipment covered by the regulations should not delay in ascertaining from their local post office their obligations in the matter. The regulations also make it illegal to purchase 01* to> acquire wiicless transmitting apparatus except on the authority of a permit issued by the Post Office. Included in the wireless apparatus which will I> e subject to registration are items such as electronic valves capable of alSodc dissipation exceeding 10 watts which include valves used in speech amplifiers, public address systems, .picture plants, etc..