Rev. 2011]
Kenya Information and Communications
CAP. 411A
259
[Subsidiary]
(4) The Commission shall conduct type approval in accordance with
the procedures for type approval of communication equipment in Kenya as it
publishes from time to time.
4. A service provider shall submit its application for approval or type Application for type
acceptance of communications equipment in prescribed forms issued by the acceptance.
Commission.
5. (1) The Commission may not return to an applicant any samples of Evaluation.
equipment and associated literature submitted for the purpose of type approval
or acceptance.
(2) The Commission shall evaluate an application and communicate
its decision to the applicant within sixty days from the date of receipt of the
application.
(3) Where the Commission does not communicate its approval or refusal
within the period prescribed in paragraph (2), the Commission shall be deemed
to have approved the application.
6. (1) The Commission may type accept any equipment that has been Type acceptance.
granted type approval from another country or jurisdiction that is recognized
by the Commission.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), an applicant for type acceptance
shall submit a sample or samples of the equipment and copies of test results
and type approval certificate from that country or jurisdiction at the time of the
submission of the application for provisional acceptance.
(3) The Commission may, on its own initiative or upon an application by
a service provider, conduct inquiries to determine whether technical standards
from other countries or jurisdictions should be recognized in Kenya for purposes
of exempting any equipment from type approval or testing requirements.
7. (1) Any person may submit equipment for provisional type approval
by the Commission.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), licensed vendors shall submit
equipment intended for commercial purposes for type approval.
(3) Where the Commission has determined that equipment that is the
subject of an application for provisional type approval complies with the
provisional type approval requirements, the Commission may grant provisional
type approval for a period not exceeding six months on such terms and conditions
that it may determine.
(4) When granting provisional type approval to equipment, the
Commission may, where it considers it necessary, limit the number of units
of that equipment that an applicant can hold and utilize until the final type
approval is granted.
Provisional type
approval.