Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933
2. Definitions
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject
or context-
(1) "wireless communication" means any transmission,
emission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds, or
intelligence of any nature by means of electricity, magnetism, or radio waves
or Hertzian waves, without the use of wires or other
continuous electrical conductors between the transmitting and the receiving
apparatus.
Explanation: " Radio waves" or
" Hertzian waves" means electromagnetic
waves of frequencies lower than 3,000 gigacycles per
second propagated in space without artificial guide;
(2) "wireless telegraphy apparatus" means any
apparatus, appliance, instrument or material used or capable of use in wireless
communication, and includes any article determined by rule made under section
10 to be wireless telegraphy apparatus, but does not include any such
apparatus, appliance, instrument or material commonly used for other electrical
purposes, unless it has been specially designed or adapted for wireless
communication or forms part of some apparatus, appliance, instrument or
material specially so designed or adapted, nor any article determined by rule
made under section 10 not to be wireless telegraphy apparatus;
(2A) "wireless transmitter" means any apparatus,
appliance, instrument or material used or capable of use for transmission or
emission of wireless communication;
(3) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under
section 10.