Telecommunications (Dealers) Regulations 2003

No. S 185

Telecommunications Act

(Chapter 323)

Telecommunications (Dealers) Regulations 2003

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 74 of the Telecommunications Act, the Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore, with the approval of Mr David Lim Tik En, Senior Minister of State, charged with the responsibility of the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunications (Dealers) Regulations 2003 and shall come into operation on 2nd April 2003.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“authorised officer” means any person authorised by the Authority to act on its behalf;

“dealer” means a person who manufactures, imports for sale, lets for hire, sells, or offers or possesses for sale any equipment which is capable of being used for the purpose of telecommunication, and includes an employee of the dealer;

“Dealer’s Class Licence” means a licence referred to in regulation 3;

“Dealer’s Individual Licence” means a licence referred to in regulation 4;

“identity card” means an identity card issued under the National Registration Act (Cap. 201);

“licence” means a Dealer’s Class Licence or a Dealer’s Individual Licence;

“licensee” means a person to whom a licence is granted, and includes an employee of the licensee;

“registered equipment” means any telecommunication equipment registered for sale under regulation 21(1);

“sale” includes every transaction of or in the nature of barter or exchange, every transaction of hire or hire-purchase and every transaction by which any goods are pawned or hypothecated or as the result of which the ownership of or an interest in goods is or may be transferred or created;

“telecommunication equipment” means any appliance, apparatus or accessory used or intended to be used for telecommunications;

“type-approved equipment” means any telecommunication equipment approved for sale under regulation 20(1).

Made this 28th day of March 2003.

LAM CHUAN LEONG

Chairman,
Info-communications
Development Authority of Singapore.

[AG/LEG/SL/323/2000/1 Vol. 4]

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