“dealer” includes
(a) a person who carries on a trade, business or industry in which radio transmitting stations or their
component parts are assembled, manufactured, imported, bought, sold, hired or exchanged or
offered or exposed for sale, hire or exchange; and
(b) an auctioneer of radio transmitting stations; and
(c) the employee or agent of a person referred to in paragraph (a)or (b);
“diffusion service” means the dissemination
(a) by means of any conducting medium of the whole or any part of writing, signs, signals, pictures,
impulses or sounds broadcast by a broadcasting service; or
(b) of music, speech, pictures or other data for information, education or entertainment purposes by
means of any conducting medium connected to two or more items of apparatus specifically
designed for the reproduction of sound, pictures or data; or
(c) of teletext and vertical blanking intervals;
“Director-General” means the Director-General of the Authority appointed in terms of section twenty-nine;
“disabled person” bears the meaning assigned to that term by section seventy-two;
“distress call, message or signal” means a communication concerning safety of life on the land, at sea or in
the air;
“electronic mail service” means a service for the distribution of messages by electronic means;
“fixed date”, in relation to any provision of this Act, means the date fixed in terms of subsection (2) of
section one as the date of commencement of that provision;
“fixed-line telephone service” means a telephone service transmitted by telecommunication lines;
“generating apparatus” means any apparatus
(a) generating or designed to generate; or
(b) liable to generate fortuitously;
Hertzian waves, which is prescribed to be generating apparatus for the purposes of this Act;
“harmful interference” means radiation, induction, conduction or other electromagnetic effect which prevents
the proper functioning of or obstructs or repeatedly interrupts
(a) a radiocommunication service carried on in accordance with this Act or the International
Telecommunication Convention; or
(b) a telephone or telegraph service carried on in terms of this Act;
“Hertzian waves” means electromagnetic waves of frequencies between ten kilohertz and four hundred
gigahertz propagated in space without artificial guide;
“implementation plan” means a plan referred to in section seventy-four;
“inspector” means a person appointed in terms of subsection (1) of section ninety-five to be an inspector for
the purposes of this Act;
“International Telecommunication Constitution” means the International Telecommunication Constitution
and Convention of the International Telecommunications Union signed in Geneva on the 22nd
December, 1992, and the Regulations annexed thereto, or any other international telecommunication
convention or agreement to which Zimbabwe may be a party and any regulations annexed thereto;
“international transit service” means a telecommunication service consisting in the conveyance of sounds,
visual images or signals which have been conveyed from, or are to be conveyed to, places outside
Zimbabwe;
“Internet service” means a telecommunication service consisting in the transmission by means of satellite,
telecommunication lines or electricity transmission lines of sounds, visual images or signals between
computer terminals located within and outside Zimbabwe;
“letter” includes a letter packet, postcard, aerogram or telegram conveyed by post;
“licence” means a cellular telecommunication licence, a postal licence, a radio station licence, a
telecommunication licence or a private telecommunication licence, as the case may be, issued in terms of
section thirty-seven;
“licensee” means a person who holds a valid licence
(a) issued to him in terms of section thirty-seven; or
(b) transferred to him with the approval of the Authority;
and any reference to a cellular telecommunication licensee, a postal licensee, , a radio station licensee, a
telecommunication licensee or a private telecommunication licensee shall be construed accordingly;
“mail” means any article which is deposited in a post box for collection and conveyance by post or which is
being conveyed by post;
“mail bag” means any bag, box, basket, parcel, hamper or other container or covering in which a postal
article is conveyed, whether it does or does not contain a postal article;
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