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No. 22889
GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE,
Act No. 64,2001
30 NOVEMBER 2001
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMENDMENT ACT. 200 1
GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
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(English text signed by the President.)
(Assented to 29 November 2001.)
ACT
To amend the Telecommunications Act,
1996 (Act No. 103 of 1996), so as to insert
newdefinitions andsubstituteotherdefinitions;tomakeprovisionforradio
frequency access in the 1800 MHz frequency band; to make provision for new
kinds of licences; to make further provision for applications for licences and the
consideration thereof; to provide anew for the taking
of decisions on applications
for licences; to provide for public switched telecommunication services and public
switched telecommunication networks; to further regulate mobile cellular telecommunication services; to provide for the commencement
or duration of certain
licences; to further regulate private telecommunication networks; to make further
provision for the interconnection
of telecommunication systems; to further provide
fortheavailability
of telecommunicationfacilities;toprovideforemergency
centres;tomakefurtherprovisionforcertainfunctions
of theIndependent
CommunicationsAuthority of SouthAfrica;and
to makeprovisionforthe
establishment of a telecommunications museum; to provide for the repeal
of a
particularlawandtheamendment
of another;andtoprovideformatters
connected therewith.
B
E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Re.public of South Africa, as
fo11ows:-
Amendment of section 1 of Act 103 of 1996, as amendedby section 23 of Act 13 of
2000
1. Section 1 of the Telecommunications Act, 1996 (hereinafterreferred to as “the 5
principal Act”), is hereby amended(a) by the insertion after thedefinition of “broadcasting signal distribution”of the
following definitions:
‘carrier of carriers’ means a te1ecommun:ication service (including any
signal conveyed by means of thetelecommunication system of that 10
service) whichoriginates on the telecommunication system of a public switched
telecommunication service licensee or mobile cellular telecommunication service licensee or an under--serviced area licensee in the
Republic and terminates in a telecommunication system in another 15
country or vice versa; or
originates and terminates in a telecommunication system ofan
operator licensed in anothercountry
to provide international
services, but is conveyed via a teleclommunication system in the
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Republic on a wholesale basis,
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