No. 4378
Act No. 8, 2009
Government Gazette 16 November 2009
75
COMMUNICATIONS ACT, 2009
the Minister, and may allocate to the reserve fund the money that may be made available
for the purposes in the statement of estimated income and expenditure or supplementary
statement contemplated in subsection (6).
Reports
111.
As soon as practicable after the end of every financial year, the Board
must submit a report on its activities during that year to the Minister who must table that
report in Parliament.
Regulations regarding Association
112.
regarding –
The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations
(a)
the requirements which registries and registrars must meet in order
to be licensed, including objective standards relating to operational
accuracy, stability, robustness and efficiency;
(b)
the circumstances and manner in which registrations may be assigned,
registered, renewed, refused, or revoked by the registries with due
regard to the express recognition of the right of groups and members of
groups within Namibia to identify with, use or communicate cultural,
linguistic, geographical, indigenous or any other expressions of
heritage including any visual or audible elements or attributes thereof;
(c)
pricing policy;
(d)
provisions for the restoration of a domain name registration and
penalties for late payments;
(e)
the terms of the domain name registration agreement which registries
and registrars must adopt and use in registering domain names,
including issues in respect of privacy, consumer protection and
alternative dispute resolution;
(f)
processes and procedures to avoid unfair and anti-competitive practices,
including bias to, or preferential treatment of actual or prospective
registrants, registries or registrars, protocols or products;
(g)
requirements to ensure that each domain name contains an
administrative and technical contact;
(h)
the creation of new sub-domains;
(i)
procedures for ensuring monitoring of compliance with the provisions
of this Act and the regulations provided for in this Chapter, including
regular .na domain name space technical audits;
(j)
such other matters relating to the .na domain name space as it may be
necessary to prescribe to achieve the objectives of this Chapter; and
(k)
policy to be applied by the Association.