No. 2 of 1998
Kenya Information and Communications
[Rev. 2018]
“postcard” means a card recognised as a postcard in accordance with the
terms of the Convention regulating the affairs of the Universal Postal Union;
“posting box” includes any pillar box, wall box, any other box or receptacle
provided by or under the authority of the public postal licensee for the purpose of
receiving postal articles for transmission by or under the authority of the public
postal licensee;
“private broadcaster” means a person licensed by the Commission under
this Act to provide commercial broadcast services;
“private letter box/bag” means any receptacle whether identified by a
distinctive number or not rented to a person for the receipt of postal articles
and capable of being used whether the person or company renting it has his
business premises open or not;
“programme” means sound, vision or a combination of both, intended to
inform, educate or entertain, but does not include text or data;
“public broadcaster” means the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
established by the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Act (Cap. 221);
“public broadcasting services” means broadcasting services of the public
broadcaster;
“public postal licensee” means the Postal Corporation of Kenya
established under the Postal Corporation of Kenya Act, 1998 (No. 3 of 1998);
“public postal licensee’s installation or plant” means any installation
or plant used for postal purposes belonging to or used by the public postal
licensee;
“radio communication” means the emitting or receiving over paths which
are not provided by any material substance constructed or arranged for that
purpose, of electro-magnetic energy of a frequency not exceeding three million
megahertz being energy which either—
(i) is capable of being transmitted through a telecommunication
system; or
(ii) is used in connection with the determination of position, bearing
or distance, or for the gaining of information as to the presence,
absence or, motion of any object or objects of any class;
“radio communication apparatus” means any apparatus capable of being
used or adapted for radio communication and where the context so requires,
includes a radio communication station;
“radio communication station” means any telecommunication station
capable of being used or being adapted for radio communication;
“registration agent” means a person contracted or otherwise engaged by
a telecommunications operator to carry out registration of SIM-cards;
“repository” means a system for storing and retrieving certificates or other
information relevant to certificates;
“signatory” means a person who holds a signature-creation device and
acts either on his own behalf or on behalf of the natural or legal person or entity
he represents;
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