PART I | 1. This Act may be cited as the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act. |
2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —| “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Corporation and includes any temporary Chairman of the Corporation; |
| “chief executive” means the chief executive of the Corporation and includes any temporary chief executive of the Corporation; |
| “Corporation” means the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore established by section 3; |
| “Corporation’s installation or plant” means any installation or plant for information communication belonging to or used by the Corporation; |
| “Deputy Chairman” means the Deputy Chairman of the Corporation and includes any temporary Deputy Chairman of the Corporation; |
| “equipment” includes any appliance, apparatus or accessory used or intended to be used for information communication; |
| “former Telecommunication Authority” means the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore established under the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act 1974 [1/74] in force before 1st October 1982; |
| “Hertzian or radio waves” means electro-magnetic waves of frequencies lower than 3000 gigahertz propagated in space without any artificial guide; |
| “information communication” means any communication between person and person, thing and thing or person and thing by means of telecommunications or any transmission of postal articles by means of post; |
| “information communication service” means any service enabling communication between person and person, thing and thing or person and thing by means of telecommunications or for the transmission of postal articles by means of post; |
| “installation or plant for information communication” includes all buildings, lands, structures, machinery, equipment, cables, poles, lines, boxes, receptacles used or intended for use in connection with information communication; |
| “mail bag” means any bag, container, envelope or covering in which postal articles are conveyed; |
| “master”, in relation to a vessel or aircraft, means any person for the time being in charge or command of the vessel or aircraft but does not include a sea pilot; |
| “member” means a member of the Corporation; |
| “message” means any sign, signal, writing, image, sound, intelligence or information of any nature transmitted by post or telecommunications or given to an employee of the Corporation to be sent by or delivered by post or telecommunications; |
| “post” means any system for the collection, despatch, conveyance, handling and delivery of postal articles by or through the Corporation; |
| “postage” means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles; |
| “postage stamp” means any label or stamp for denoting any postage or other sum payable in respect of a postal article, and includes any adhesive postage stamp or stamp printed, impressed or otherwise indicated on a postal article, whether the postage stamp is issued under this Act or by the Government of any other country; |
| “postal article” means any article or thing transmissible by post but does not include such article or thing as the Corporation may prescribe to be not transmissible by post; |
| “Postal Department” means the Postal Services Department established under the Post Office Act [1970 Ed. Cap. 84] in force before 1st October 1982; |
| “postal undertaking” means all the lands, buildings and other property, movable or immovable, vested in the Government immediately before 1st October 1982 for the purposes of the Postal Services Department and all assets, powers, rights, interests and privileges as well as all debts, liabilities and obligations of the Government connected therewith; |
| “radio-communication” means any telecommunication by means of Hertzian or radio waves; |
| “radio-communication service” means any service for radio-communications; |
| “radio-communication system” means any system used or intended to be used for radio-communications; |
| “street” includes any way, road, lane, path, passage or open space, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way and also the roadway and footway over any public bridge and includes any road, footway or passage, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not; |
| “telecommunications” means a transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electro-magnetic systems whether or not such signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence have been subjected to rearrangement, computation or other processes by any means in the course of their transmission, emission or reception; |
| “telecommunication line” means a wire or wires used for telecommunications with any casing, coating, tube or pipe enclosing the same and any appliance and any apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of fixing or insulating the same; |
| “telecommunication service” means any service for telecommunications; |
| “telecommunication system” means any system used or intended to be used for telecommunications; |
| “telecommunication undertaking” means all the lands, buildings and other property, movable or immovable, vested in the former Telecommunication Authority immediately before 1st October 1982 and all assets, powers, rights, interests, privileges, debts, liabilities and obligations connected therewith; |
| “transferred undertaking” means the telecommunication and postal undertaking vested in the Corporation by virtue of section 24; |
| “vessel” includes any ship or boat or air-cushioned vehicle or floating rig or platform used in any form of operations at sea or any other description of vessel. |
(2) For the purposes of this Act —| (a) | the delivery of a postal article by depositing it —| (i) | into the letter box of the addressee or by leaving it at the house or office of the addressee, or with the addressee or with his servant or agent or other person authorised to receive it and, where the addressee is a guest or is resident at a hotel, hostel or lodging of a similar nature, by leaving it with the proprietor or manager thereof or with his agent shall be a delivery to the addressee; and | | (ii) | into any box or receptacle provided or authorised by the Corporation for the deposit of postal articles or by handing it over to an employee or agent of the Corporation authorised to receive it shall be a delivery to the Corporation; |
| | (b) | a postal article shall be in the course of transmission by post from the time of its being delivered to the Corporation to the time of its being delivered to the addressee, or its being returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of under this Act. |
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