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(2.) A certificate shall not be recognized as authorizing the holder to work a ship station under the terms of this license unless it bears a statement that it is issued by the Postmaster-General in accordance with the Radio-telegraph Convention, 1912. Such certificates will be valid only during the operation of the said Convention. They will be granted to persons of such technical proficiency, and will be in such form and will be subject to such conditions as the Postmaster-General shall from time to time prescribe, and they may be endorsed or withdrawn at the discretion of the PostmasterGeneral in case of misconduct or breach on the part of the holder of the regulations prescribed for the working of ship stations. 13. The licensee shall not divulge to any person (other than properly authorized officials of His Majesty's Government or a competent legal tribunal) or make any use whatever of any message coming to the knowledge of the licensee and not intended for receipt by means of the licensed apparatus. The licensee shall exhibit at each of the ship stations specified in the schedule hereto a copy of section 11 of the Post Office (Protection) Act, 1884, and any contravention of that section by any person in the employment of the licensee shall be deemed to be a breach of the provisions of this license entitling the Postmaster-General under clause 22 hereof to revoke and determine this license. 14. The licensee shall keep full accounts, records, and registers of all messages transmitted by means of the licensed apparatus, and in such registers each of such messages shall be accompanied by its identifying number and date and full particulars of its place of origin and of ultimate destination, and such further particulars as the Postmaster-General shall from time to time reasonably require to be shown, messages on His Majesty's service being in such registers distinguished from other messages. The licensee shall preserve all used message-forms written and printed, and transcripts of messages, and all other papers for a period of at least fifteen months, counting from the month following that in which the radio-telegrams were handed in, as prescribed by the Radio-telegraph Convention, 1912; and such registers and message-papers shall be open to the inspection of the Postmaster-General or his officers thereto authorized at the office of the licensee for the time being, or at such other place as may be agreed between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on every day except Sunday or a statute or general holiday. 15. The licensee shall render to the Postmaster-General such accounts as the Postmaster-General shall direct in respect of all charges due or payable under the Radio-telegraph Convention, 1912, in respect of messages exchanged between the ship stations hereby licensed and coast stations, and shall pay to the Postmaster-General at such times and in such manner as the Postmaster-General shall direct all sums which shall be due from the licensee under such accounts. 16. The Postmaster-General, and any agent authorized in that behalf in writing by him, may at all reasonable times enter upon all or any of the ship stations hereby licensed for the purpose of inspecting, and may inspect, any apparatus fixed or being in such stations respectively for the purpose of sending and receiving messages by wireless telegraphy, and all other telegraphic instruments and apparatus fixed or being in such stations respectively, and the working and user of such apparatus and telegraphic instruments respectively. 17. The licensee shall carry on every ship on which a ship station is established under this license a print or copy of the license certified under the hand of an appropriate officer of the PostmasterGeneral to be a true copy, and shall produce such print or copy for inspection if required to do so by the competent authorities of the countries where the ship calls. The licensee shall also carry on every such ship such documents as may be prescribed by the Postmaster-General for the purpose of enabling the licensee to communicate with coast stations and ship stations in accordance with the Radio-telegraph Convention, 1912. 18. (1.) The licensee shall pay to the Postmaster-General for and in respect of the license hereby granted a royalty of ss. per annum in respect of each ship station at which the licensed apparatus is installed. (2.) The said royalty shall be payable on the Ist December in each year during which the license remains valid. 19. Except with the consent in writing of the Postmaster-General, the licensee shall not assign, underlet, or otherwise dispose of or admit any other person or body to participate in the benefit of the licenses, powers, or authorities hereby granted, or any of such licenses, powers, or authorities. 20. (1.) If and whenever an emergency shall have arisen in which it is expedient for the public service that His Majesty's Government shall have control over the transmission of messages by the licensed apparatus, it shall be lawful for any Naval, Military, Customs, or Police officer, or any other person authorized by the Admiralty, to take possession of the licensed apparatus, or any part thereof, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, and to use the same for His Majesty's service; and in that event any such officer or person so authorized may enter upon any ship on which any such apparatus is installed and take possession of the said apparatus, and use the same as aforesaid, and, subject to such use, may use the same or allow it to be used for such ordinary services as may in his discretion seem fit to him, or may prohibit and take steps to prevent the use of the same, and issue directions, which shall be obeyed by the licensee, to prevent such use. (2.) Any such officer or person so authorized as aforesaid may in such event as aforesaid, instead of taking possession of the licensed apparatus as aforesaid, direct and authorize such persons as he may think fit to assume the control of the transmission of messages by the licensed apparatus either wholly or partly, and in such manner as he may direct, and such persons may enter upon any ship on which any apparatus is installed accordingly, or the said officer or person so authorized as aforesaid may direct the licensee to submit to him or any person authorized by him all messages tendered for transmission or arriving by the licensed apparatus, or any class or classes of such messages, to stop