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GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE,
30 NOVEMBER 2001
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMENDMENT ACT, 2001
No. 22889
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Act No. 64,2001
(3) The subsidy for universal access projects shall be paid out of the
Universal Service Fund.
(4) The Agency shall supervise the execution of projects awarded under
subsection (l).”.
Insertion Chapter
of new
X103
in Act
of 1996
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29..The following Chapter is hereby inserted in the principal Act after Chapter IX:
“CHAPTER X
EMERGENCY CENTRES
Definition
78. In this Chapter, unless thr: context otherwise indicates, ‘emergency 10
organisation’ means, in respect of any locality, the relevant police, fire,
ambulance or traffic authority 01’ coast guard services for that locality and
any other similar organisation providing assistance to thepublicin
emergencies.
Establishment
Emergency
Centres
of 112
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79. (1) TheMinister may b,y notice in the Gazette establish public
emergency communications centres to be known as ‘112 Emergency
Centres’.
(2) A 112 Emergency Centre is a communications servicecentre by
means of which the user of a public telephone system has the ability to
reach an emergency centre by dialling the numerals 112 in order to request
an emergency service.
(3) 112 Emergency Centres st.all be accountable to the Minister.
(4) 112 Emergency Centres shall be exempted from holding a licenceto
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provide telecommunication services in terms of any section of this Act.
Functions of 112 Emergency Centres
80. (1) 112 Emergency Centres shall transmit any telecommunication
request for an emergency service to any emergency organisation.
(2) Licensees required to carry calls to 112 Emergency Centres may not
levy any charge on the caller for placing calls to 112 Emergency Centres. 30
(3) Licensees transporting any telecommunication from 112 Emergency
Centres to any emergency organisation shall be entitled to recover fromthe
relevant emergency organisation the reasonable cost that it incurs in
transporting such telecommunication.
emergency
Public
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81. (1) The number 112 is hereby established as the exclusive national
public emergency number.
(2) No person may apply for the registration interms of applicable
intellectual property legislation, or any other law, of any mark or domain
name containing the numerals 1-1-2 in that sequence.
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(3) No person may call the national emergency telecommunication
number, 112, for anypurpose other than a request for an emergency service
contemplated in section 79(2).
Standards, capabilities and operating procedures
Centres
of 112 Emergency
82. (1) As far as practicably possible, 112 Emergency Centres shall have
voice, data and global positioning systems capability.
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