A 342
Office
holders
pursuant to
repealed
Acts.
2003 No. 19
Communications
155. Any person who immediately before the coming into force of this Act is
the holder of any office in the Commission pursuant to the repealed Acts shall on the
commencement of this Act continue in office and be deemed to have been appointed
to his office pursuant to this Act, unless the authority by which the person was
appointed terminates the appointment in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
PART II—TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR LICENCES, DEFINITIONS AND SHORT TITLE
Old licences.
156.—(1) Subject to Subsection (2) of this section, licences issued under the
repealed Act (“old licences”) shall continue to have effect under this Act.
(2) The Commission shall, upon the commencement of this Act, have the powers
to modify old licences to conform to the provisions and objectives of this Act.
Interpretation.
157. In this Act—
“Access” means the making available of communications facilities and
communications services one licensee to another for the purpose of providing
services, and includes the connection of equipment by wire or wireless means,
access to physical infrastructure including but not limited to buildings, ducts and
masts, access to mobile networks, in particular for roaming, and access to number
translation or systems offering equivalent functionality ;
“Access list” means the list of facilities or services established under Part III
of Chapter VI ;
“Agreement” means an agreement, whether formal or informal, oral or written,
express or implied ;
“Applications service” means a service provided by means of, but not solely
by means of one, or more network services ;
“Applications service provider” means a person who provides an application
service ;
“Assignment” means the assignment by the Commission of rights to use the
spectrum, numbers or electronic addresses and may include conditions to which
the exercise of those rights shall be subject ;
“Authorised interception” means interception by the licensee of any network
facilities, network service or applications service permitted under section 148 of
this Act ;
“Board” means the Board of Commissioners established under section 5 of
this Act ;
“Class licence” means a licence for any or all persons to conduct a specified
activity and may include conditions to which the conduct of that activity shall be
subject ;
“Commission” means the Nigerian Communications Commission established
under section 3 of this Act ;
“Communications licence” or “licence” means either an individual licence or
a class licence issued by the Commission under Chapter IV ;
“Communications” means any communication, whether between persons and