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conditions attached thereto.
Licenses for scientific
37. (1) Where an application for the grant or renewal of a radio
or research use.
communication licence is made to the Commission by any person,

and the Commission is satisfied that the purpose of the licence is to
enable the applicant to conduct experiments in radio communications
for the purpose of scientific research, the Commission shall subject to
subsection (2) not refuse to grant or renew the licence, and shall not
revoke the licence when granted and no sum shall be payable under
any regulations in respect of such licence except the fee for the grant
or the renewal thereof.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall prevent the Commission from
refusing to grant or renew, or from revoking, a radio communication
licence if the applicant has, whether before or after the grant or last
renewal of the licence, been convicted of any offence under this Act,
whether in relation to any radio communication apparatus covered by
such licence or any other radio communication apparatus, or has been
convicted of using any apparatus for the purpose of interfering with
any radio-communication.
(3) Nothing in subsection (1) shall limit the discretion of the
Commission as to the conditions which it attaches to any radio
communication licence or its power to vary the conditions of any such
licence.
Regulations on radio
communication.
1 of 2009, s.13.

38. (1) The Minister in consultation with the Commission may
make regulations generally with respect to radio communication and,
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, with respect to—
(a) the fees or sums to be paid by a person to whom a radiocommunication licence is granted on the grant or renewal of
such licence and the conditions on which any such licence
may be granted, renewed or revoked;
(b) anything which may or may not be done in connection with
the use of any radio communication station or apparatus
and in particular, requiring the use of any such station or
apparatus to cease on the demand in that behalf by any
authorised employee of the Commission;
(c) imposing on the person to whom a radio communication
licence is granted with respect to any radio communication
station or apparatus, or who is in possession or control of any
radio communication station or apparatus, obligations as to
permitting and facilitating the inspection of such station or
apparatus, as to the conditions in which the radio station or

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