
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Content of Transmission) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 17th February 1988.
2 
In these Regulations —
 “the Act” means the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949;
 “authorised broadcasting station” means a station for the time being duly authorised to conduct a broadcasting service pursuant to the Radio Regulations published by the General Secretariat of the International Telecommunication Union and for the time being in force;
 “public telecommunication system” has the meaning given by section 9(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1984.
3 
Save as excepted by regulation 4, a person shall not use any station for wireless telegraphy or any wireless telegraphy apparatus to send a message, communication or other matter in whatever form that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.
4 
Regulation 3 shall not apply in relation to the use by any person of an authorised broadcasting station or a public telecommunication system.
John Butcher
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Trade and Industry
18th January 1988