Prune Dispatcher
I do concede that the 49 Act has been modified in recent years and that Section 5 now says that "It is an offence to "deliberately" receive messages the receipt of which is "unauthorised." Aviation messages are for the principle purpose of "flight safety" and could be deemed to be of interest to aviators in general.
BR68 Rev 2 Issued by the RA States:
If any message, the receipt of which is not authorised by this licence, is received by means of the Station, neither the licensee nor any person using the Station should make known the contents of any such message, its content, its origin or destination, its existence or the fact of its receipt (exceptions stated) or to allow it to be copied or made use of.
This was the original WT Act wording that appeared in transmitting Licences issued by the PMG etc prior to the addition of the terms "deliberate" and "unauthorised" Hardly Urban Myth!
The point being it is not illegal to own a radio or to listen on any particular frequency, anything you may hear is of course incidental.