such equipment to national standards.
3. Equipment subject to type approval.
(1) All communications terminals, network equipment and communications
equipment to be used for connection or access to the public operating
communication networks, wireless communications equipment and radio
communications equipment intended to be connected directly or to inter work with
a communications network in Kenya to send, process or receive information shall
prior to their use be submitted for type approval or type acceptance by the
Commission.
(2) The Commission shall grant type approval for each type of equipment once,
and subsequent users of the same type of equipment shall not apply to the
Commission for approval.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2), where there is a change of model, design or
specification of equipment which had been type approved by the Commission, the
equipment shall be re-submitted for type approval.
(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. Application for type acceptance.
A service provider shall submit its application for approval or type acceptance of
communications equipment in prescribed forms issued by the Commission.
5. Evaluation.
(1) The Commission may not return to an applicant any samples of 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. Type acceptance.
(1) The Commission may type accept any equipment that has been granted type