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Government Gazette 16 November 2009
Act No. 8, 2009
No. 4378
COMMUNICATIONS ACT, 2009
(a)
the forms of assistance in the execution of a direction for which a
telecommunication service provider must be compensated; and
(b)
reasonable tariffs of compensation payable to a telecommunications
service provider for providing such prescribed forms of assistance.
(2)
The forms of assistance referred to in subsection (1) (a) may include –
(a)
the making available of a facility, device or telecommunication
system;
(b)
the routing of duplicate signals or duplicate packets to interception
centres;
(c)
making available of network services or facilities to equipment or
software installed in interception centres;
(d)
provision of information stored in terms of section 71(2).
(3)
Regulations made in terms of subsection (1)(a) may also prescribe –
(a)
the manner of routing signals to interception centres;
(b)
the format in which information or signals must be provided to
interception centres;
(c)
any technical matter relating to the interconnection of equipment at
interception centres and equipment or networks of telecommunications
service providers; or
(d)
any other technical requirement that will facilitate the interception of
the telecommunications in question.
(4)
The Authority may after consultation with the Minister impose further
conditions on licensees relating to any matter contained in the regulations referred to in
subsection (1) which conditions may regulate anything prescribed in these regulations
in more detail or which may be necessary in order to facilitate any matter prescribed in
the regulations.
(5)
If the Authority is of the opinion that information contained in licence
conditions referred to in subsection (4) may contain information that may be detrimental
to the objects of this Part, it may not make any such information relating to such
conditions available as contemplated in section 27.
(6)
The tariffs prescribed in terms of subsection (1)(b) –
(a)
may differ in respect of different categories of telecommunication
service providers; and
(b)
must be uniform in respect of each telecommunication service provider
falling within the same category.
(7)
The compensation prescribed in terms of subsection (1)(b) may only be
for direct costs incurred in respect of personnel and administration which are required