Telecommunication (Class Licences) Regulations

Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act

(Chapter 323, Section 131)

Rg 10

G.N. No. S 278/1996

REVISED EDITION 1999

(1st July 1999)

[1st July 1996]

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunication (Class Licences) Regulations.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations --

“class licence” means a licence granted by the Authority under section 26 of the Act set out in the First, Second, Third, Fourth or Fifth Schedule;

“licensee” means a person who is deemed to have been granted a class licence;

“operator” means a person who runs any of the specified telecommunication systems and services;

“specified telecommunication systems and services” means telecommunication systems and services specified in the class licences.

Class licences

3.—(1) Where an operator has a licence issued before 1st July 1996 for the operation and provision of any third-party access value-added network service or any audiotex service, that licence shall be revoked as from 1st July 1996 without any refund and he shall be deemed to have been granted a class licence set out in the Second or Third Schedule, as the case may be.

(2) Where an operator has a licence granted by the Authority before 1st June 1997 for the operation and provision of any third-party traffic value-added network service, that licence shall be revoked as from 1st June 1997 without any refund and he shall be deemed to have been granted a class licence set out in the Second Schedule.

(3) Where an operator has a licence granted by the Authority before 1st June 1997 for --

(a)	the resale of the provision of public switched telecommunication services;
(b)	the rental of mobile telephone and paging services; or
(c)	the provision of telecommunication services through shared use or resale of private automatic branch exchange (PABX),

that licence shall be revoked as from 1st June 1997 and he shall be deemed to have been granted a class licence set out in the Fourth Schedule.

(4) In every other case, an operator shall, upon compliance with regulations 4 and 5, be deemed to have been granted such class licence as may be appropriate to the type of specified telecommunication systems and services run by him.

Registration

4.—(1) An operator shall register with the Authority in such form and submit to the Authority such information in writing relating to his particulars and the description and scope of telecommunication systems and services run by him, as the Authority may require.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the grant of class licences for bulletin board services where --

(a)

no fee is payable to access the bulletin board system; or

(b)

access to the bulletin board system is restricted to --

(i)	the officers and employees of the statutory body, company or business which operates it; or
(ii)	the members, officers and employees of the registered society which operates it.

Fee payable upon registration

5. An operator shall pay such fee, if any as may be required in the class licence appropriate to the type of specified telecommunication systems and services run by him.

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