Act Number: 17

Act Name: The Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933

Year: 1933

Enactment Date: 1933-09-11

Long Title: An Act to regulate the possession of wireless telegraphy apparatus.

Ministry: Ministry of Communications

Department: Department of Telecommunications

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.
    (1) This Act may be called the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933.
     1[(2) It extends to the whole of India 2***.]
     (3) It shall come into force on such dates3 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes:
1. Subs. by s. 3, ibid., for certain words.
2. The words "except the State of Hyderabad", which had been added by the A.O. 1950, omitted by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule.
3. 1st January, 1934; see Gazette of India, 1933, Part I, p. 1131.

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