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 54 STAT.] MULTILATERAITELECOMMUNICATION-APR. 8, 1938 [43] Private radio station: A private station, not open to public cor- respondence, which is authorized solely to exchange with other "pri- vate radio stations" communications concerning the private business of the license-holder or -holders. ARTICLE 2 Secrecy of Radio Communications [441 The administrations agree to take the necessary measures to mSyfOfradiCOm. prohibit and prevent: [45] (a) the unauthorized interception of radio communications not intended for the general use of the public; [46] (b) the divulging of the contents or of the mere existence, the publication or any use whatever, without authorization, of the radio communication mentioned in paragraph (a) [No. 45]. ARTICLE 3 License [47] §1. (1) No transmitting station may be established or operated Liew. by any person or by any enterprise whatever without a special license issued by the government of the country to which the station in ques- tion is subject. [481 (2) Mobile stations having their port of registry in a colony, a territory under sovereignty or mandate, an overseas territory, or a protectorate, may be considered as being subject to the authority of this colony, these territories, or this protectorate, so far as concerns the issuance of licenses. [49] §2. The holder of a license shall be bound to preserve the secrecy of telecommunications, as provided for in article 24 of the 40stt. 24I Convention. In addition, the license must state that it is prohibited to receive radio correspondence other than that which the station is authorized to receive, and that, in case such correspondence is received involuntarily, it must neither be reproduced nor communicated to third persons, nor used for any purpose whatever, and that the very existence thereof must not be revealed. [50] §3. In order to facilitate the verification of licenses issued to mobile stations, there shall be added, when necessary, to the text drafted in the national language, a translation of this text into a language in general use in international relations. [51] §4. The government issuing the license to a mobile station shall mention therein the category to which this station belongs from the standpoint of international public correspondence. ARTICLE 4 Coice of Apparatus [52] §1. The choice of radio apparatus and devices to be used in a Chie appt. station shall be unrestricted, provided that the waves emitted satisfy the provisions of the present Regulations. 1425

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