Wireless Telegraphy Act is (with its variations) a stock short title used for legislation in the Republic of Ireland, South Africa and the United Kingdom relating to wireless telegraphy.
The Wireless Telegraphy Acts are laws regulating radio communications in the United Kingdom.
Wireless telegraphy as a concept is defined in British law as "the sending of electro-magnetic energy over paths not provided by a material substance."
The term telegraphy, although best known in relation to the electric telegraph, relates to the sending of messages over long-distances. Wireless telegraphy is differentiated from electrical telegraphy in that the messages are transmitted via electromagnetic means (light or radio) rather than via a physical electrical cable connection.
The current (2018) supervisor of the UK's electromagnetic spectrum is the communications regulator, Ofcom.
| Short Title: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to provide for the regulation of Wireless Telegraphy. |
| Year: | 1904 |
| Citation: | 4 Edw. 7. c. 24 |
| Royal Assent: | 15 August 1904 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Collapsed: | yes |
| Short Title: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 1906 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to continue the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1904, |
| Year: | 1906 |
| Citation: | 6 Edw. 7. c. 13 |
| Royal Assent: | 20 July 1906 |
| Amends: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Collapsed: | yes |
| Short Title: | Wireless Telegraphy (Explanation) Act 1925 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to explain the meaning of the expressions "transmission" and "rent or royalty" where used in certain provisions of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1904. |
| Year: | 1925 |
| Citation: | 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 67 |
| Royal Assent: | 7 August 1925 |
| Amends: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Collapsed: | yes |
| Short Title: | Wireless Telegraphy (Blind Persons Facilities) Act 1926 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to facilitate the use of wireless telegraphy by the blind. |
| Year: | 1926 |
| Citation: | 16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 54 |
| Royal Assent: | 15 December 1926 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Collapsed: | yes |
| Short Title: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to amend the law relating to wireless telegraphy. |
| Year: | 1949 |
| Citation: | 12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 54 |
| Royal Assent: | 30 July 1949 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Original Text: | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/54/contents/enacted |
| Use New Uk-Leg: | no |
| Collapsed: | yes |
| Short Title: | Wireless Telegraphy (Validation of Charges) Act 1954 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to validate certain charges in respect of licences under the Wireless Telegraphy Acts, 1904 to 1926, and for purposes connected with the matter aforesaid. |
| Year: | 1954 |
| Citation: | 3 & 4 Eliz. 2. c. 2 |
| Royal Assent: | 22 December 1954 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Collapsed: | yes |
| Short Title: | Wireless Telegraphy (Blind Persons) Act 1955 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to amend subsection (2) of section two of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949. |
| Year: | 1955 |
| Citation: | 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 7 |
| Royal Assent: | 27 July 1955 |
| Collapsed: | yes |
| Short Title: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to enable the Postmaster General to obtain information as to the sale and hire of television receiving sets; to enable him to prohibit the manufacture or importation of certain wireless telegraphy apparatus; to make provision for requiring applicants for vehicle excise licences to give information about such apparatus installed in vehicles; to make miscellaneous amendments in the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949; and for connected purposes. |
| Year: | 1967 |
| Citation: | 1967 c. 72 |
| Royal Assent: | 27 July 1967 |
| Amends: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Use New Uk-Leg: | no |
| Collapsed: | yes |
| Short Title: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 1998 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to make provision about the grant of, and sums payable in respect of, licences under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 other than television licences, and about the promotion of the efficient use and management of the electro-magnetic spectrum for wireless telegraphy; and for connected purposes. |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Citation: | 1998 c. 6 |
| Royal Assent: | 18 March 1998 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Original Text: | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/6/contents/enacted |
| Use New Uk-Leg: | no |
| Collapsed: | yes |