Communications
2003 No. 19
licensee’s offices that deal with or relate howsoever with its consumers ; and
(d) if the Commission so directs, published in at least one national
newspaper ;
“Register” means anyone of the registers established or maintained by the
Commission for the purposes of this Act ;
“Service”, except where the context otherwise requires, means applications,
content, network or facilities services or any combination of these services ;
“Spectrum” means the continuous range of electromagnetic wave frequencies
up to and including a frequency of 420 terahertz ;
“Spectrum assignment” means the assignment issued under Part I of Chapter
VIII ;
“Telecommunication” means any transmission, emission or reception of signs,
signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, visual
or other electro-magnetic systems ;
“Transmit” or “transmission” means to cause any emission of unguided
electromagnetic energy in any part of the spectrum ;
158. This Act may be cited as the Nigerian Communications Act 2003.
FIRST SCHEDULE
SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Proceedings of the Board
1. Subject to the provisions of this Act and section 27 of the Interpretation Act,
the Board may make standing orders regulating its proceedings or that of any of its
Committees.
2. The Chairman shall preside at every meeting of the Board and in his absence,
the Executive Vice-Chairman shall preside at the meeting and in the absence of the
Chairman and Executive Vice-Chairman, the members present at that meeting shall
appoint one of their numbers to preside at the meeting.
3. The quorum for any meeting of the Board shall be a simple majority of the
Members for the meantime constituting the Board provided that, such simple majority
shall include a minimum of 2 Executive Commissioners.
4. The Board shall meet to transact its business pursuant to this Act whenever
it is summoned by the Chairman and if so required by notice given to him by not less
than 4 other members of the Board specifying, amongst others, an agenda for the
meeting, the Chairman shall summon a meeting of the Board that shall be held
within 14 days from the date on which the notice is served on him to discuss the
items specified in the notice ; Provided that the Board shall for the purposes of this
Act meet not less than 4 times in each calendar year.
5. A member of the Board who directly or indirectly has an interest of a personal
nature (including but not limited to financial interests) in any matter being deliberated
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