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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Citation and commencement
1.
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Lesotho Telecommunications
Authority Regulations 2001 and shall come into operation on a date determined by
the Minister by notice in the Gazette.
(2) Different dates may be determined under subregulation (1) in respect
of different provisions of the Regulations and different areas of the Kingdom of
Lesotho.
Applicability
2.
(1) Unless otherwise stated, the Authority may not entertain or process any
pleadings, applications, papers or filings of any kind not submitted in accordance
with these Regulations.
(2) In cases of conflict between these Regulations and the Act the
provisions of the Act shall prevail.
Interpretation
3.
(1) For purposes of these Regulations, any word or phrase to which a mean
ing has been assigned in the Act has such meaning.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“applicant” means any person who has applied to the Authority for a
licence under the Act;
“application” means the filing with the Authority of a request for a
licence under the Act;
“Authority” means the Lesotho telecommunications Authority estab
lished by section 4 of the Act;
“Board” means the Board of the Authority established by section 5 of
the Act;