“member” means a member of the Board;
“Minister” means the Minister of Transport and Communications or any other Minister to whom the
President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act;
“mobile station” bears the meaning assigned to that term in the First Schedule;
“money order” means an order for the payment of money remitted at the expense of the person making the
order through and on the credit of a postal licensee;
“operate”, in relation to a, cellular telecommunication or telecommunication system, means to install, work,
maintain, develop or hire the cellular telecommunication or telecommunication apparatus comprising the
system concerned;
“person in charge”, in relation to
(a) a vessel, means any person, other than a pilot, having command or charge of the vessel;
(b) an aircraft, means any person in command or in charge of the aircraft;
“philatelic archival materials” bears the meaning assigned to that term by section fifty-two;
“postage” means the duty payable for the transmission of articles by post;
“postage stamp” means any piece of paper or other substance or material whatsoever having thereon the
stamp, mark or impression of any die, plate or other instrument made or used by a postal licensee for the
purpose of denoting any postage;
“postal article” includes any letter, postcard, printed paper, small packet, newspaper, literature for the blind,
parcel or other article whatsoever in the course of transmission by post;
“postal licence” means a licence that authorises the licensee to operate a postal service;
“postal order” means a money order in a form provided by a postal licensee on which a fixed amount for
remittal is denominated;
“postal service” means a service comprising
(a) the conveyance for reward of postal articles from one place to another, whether by land, sea or
air; and
(b) the performance of all services incidental to the receiving, collecting, sending, despatching and
delivering of postal articles; and
(c) the issuance of money orders and postal orders;
and includes a commercial courier service, but does not include
(i) the provision of postage stamps, unless expressly authorised by the terms of a postal licence; or
(ii) the provision of an electronic mail service, except in accordance with a telecommunication
licence;
“post box” means any letter box, mail box or other receptacle for the reception of postal articles for
transmission by post;
“post office” includes
(a) any house, building, room, place or structure or any vehicle used for the handling or
transmission of postal articles or telegrams; and
(b) any post box;
“prescribe” means prescribe by regulations made in terms of section ninety-nine;
“private automatic branch exchange” means an automatic telephone system connected to a telephone
exchange by one or more exchange lines, which system serves the person to whom such exchange line
or lines are so supplied;
“private telecommunication licence” means a licence that authorises the licensee to provide or operate a
private telecommunication service or system;
“private telecommunication service or system” means
(a) a telecommunication service which is not offered to or provided for members of the public; or
(b) a telecommunication system which is contained within and serves a single building and is not
connected with a telecommunication system established, maintained or worked by a
telecommunication licensee;
“radio apparatus” includes any apparatus, equipment, instrument, pole, mast, standard, wire, cable, thing or
means whatsoever which is or may be used in connection with, or for the purpose of, conveying
electromagnetic energy to or from a radio station;
“radio receiving station” means apparatus referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of “radio station”;
“radio station” means
(a) apparatus, other than generating apparatus, capable of being used for the transmission or
emission of writing, signs, signals, pictures, impulses and sounds of all descriptions whatsoever
wholly or partly by means of Hertzian waves; or
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