Radiocommunication Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. R-2)

Marginal note:Prohibitions

• 9 (1) No person shall

  • (a) knowingly send, transmit or cause to be sent or transmitted any false or fraudulent distress signal, message, call or radiogram of any kind;

  • (b) without lawful excuse, interfere with or obstruct any radiocommunication;

  • (c) decode an encrypted subscription programming signal or encrypted network feed otherwise than under and in accordance with an authorization from the lawful distributor of the signal or feed;

  • (d) operate a radio apparatus so as to receive an encrypted subscription programming signal or encrypted network feed that has been decoded in contravention of paragraph (c); or

  • (e) retransmit to the public an encrypted subscription programming signal or encrypted network feed that has been decoded in contravention of paragraph (c).

• Marginal note:Prohibition

  (1.1) Except as prescribed, no person shall make use of or divulge a radio-based telephone communication

  • (a) if the originator of the communication or the person intended by the originator of the communication to receive it was in Canada when the communication was made; and

  • (b) unless the originator, or the person intended by the originator to receive the communication consents to the use or divulgence.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (2) Except as prescribed, no person shall intercept and make use of, or intercept and divulge, any radiocommunication, except as permitted by the originator of the communication or the person intended by the originator of the communication to receive it.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (3) Subsection (2) does not apply in respect of radiocommunication that consists of broadcasting, a subscription programming signal or a network feed.