54 No. 3
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
notice of forbearance in the Gazette, setting forth the details of, and
the reasons for the decision, and inviting interested parties to make
submissions in relation to that decision within a period specified in
that notice, but in any event not shorter than four weeks from the
date of publication of that notice.
(3) The Authority shall give due and proper consideration
to any representation it may receive in accordance with sub-section
(2) and shall thereupon issue its final decision.
(d) Spectrum Management
Authority to
manage and
assign the
national
radio
frequency
spectrum
71.(1) The Authority shall have powers to manage and
control all radio communication frequencies spectrum or frequency
channels and provide mechanisms governing allocation and
assignment to persons for limited periods of time by issuing licences
under conditions determined by the Authority.
(2) The Authority shall make rules (a) governing
harmful
interference
to
other
communications;
(b) establishing minimum performance standards of
electronic appliances’,
in regard to manufacture, import, sale, shipment and use of such
devices or appliances.
(3) The Authority shall from time to time (a) classify radio stations, prescribe the nature of service
to be rendered by each station, assign bands of
frequencies to each class of stations and assign
frequencies and time during which it may operate;
(b) make regulations to(i)
prevent interference between stations under
this Act;
(ii)
require stations to maintain such records of
communications or signals as the Authority
may deem necessary; and
(iii)
require stations to submit to the Authority
reports as the Authority may from time to
time require.