(b)
Licensing of
postal services
operators.
to a postal service licensee if it is deposited into
a posting box or handed over to an employee or
agent of a postal service operator authorised to
receive it.
68.(1)No person shall operate a reserved or unreserved
postal service except in accordance with a licence issued
under the Act.
(2)
The Commission shall prescribe the terms and
conditions of all licences, as it considers consistent with the
provisions of the Act, these Regulations and such other
circumstances as it may deem necessary.
Applications
for licence.
69. (1) Any person may, subject to the provisions of
the Act and these Regulations, apply for a licence from the
Commission to operate postal services.
(2)
Applications for postal service licences shall be
made in writing in the prescribed form No.1 set out in the First
Schedule.
(3)
In considering any application for a postal
licence, the Commission may require the applicant to produce
such evidence or information to show his or her capacity to
operate postal services as the Commission may deem
necessary.
(4)
The Commission may require applicants for
postal licences to provide evidence of ownership of the firm or
company applying for the licences in support of the application
and any person who knowingly gives false information shall be
guilty of an offence.
(5)
Applicants for a postal licence shall submit to
the Commission(a)
particulars as to the services to be operated; and
(b)
the geographical area for which postal services
are proposed to be carried out.
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