Singapore legislation
Clause 62
Clause 62
Prohibitions
(1)
No person shall —
establish any radio communication station system or install or operate any radio communication apparatus or equipment in any place in Singapore or on board any vessel, ship or aircraft or in any vehicle;
offer for sale, sell, or have in his possession with a view to sale any radio communication apparatus or equipment,except and in accordance with a licence (granted either specifically or generally) under section 17 of this Act.
(2)
Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under this section and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(3)
Any person who is in possession of any radio-communication equipment or apparatus intended for transmitting or receiving communications by radio communication shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to have operated the same.
(4)
The occupier of any dwelling-house or premises in which is installed any radio-communication equipment or apparatus for transmitting or receiving communications by radio-communication in respect of which a licence is not in force shall be guilty of an offence under this Part of this Act.
(5)
It shall be a defence to a prosecution for an offence under subsection (4) of this section that the occupier was not aware and could not with reasonable diligence have become aware of the existence in the dwelling-house or premises of the radio-communication apparatus in question.