Telecommunication (Class Licence for Postal Services) Regulations 1997

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 19 Dec 1997

No. S 547

Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act

(Chapter 323)

Telecommunication (Class Licence for Postal Services) Regulations 1997

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 131 of the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act, the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Communications, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunication (Class Licence for Postal Services) Regulations 1997 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1998.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations —

“class licence” means a licence granted by the Authority under section 42 of the Act to provide an express letter service;

“delivered”, in relation to correspondence, means delivered to the addressee or the addressee’s employee or agent, or to any other person authorised by law to receive it;

“express letter service” means a local express letter service or an international express letter service or both;

“international express letter service” means a service for the conveyance of any form of communication in the nature of current and personal correspondence —

(a)	originating from Singapore for delivery to a destination outside of Singapore whereby the correspondence is contracted to be delivered at a rate faster than the published delivery standard for air mail letters despatched by the public postal licensee; or
(b)	originating from outside Singapore for delivery within the same working day in Singapore;

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

“local express letter service” means a service for the conveyance of any form of communication in the nature of current and personal correspondence, originating from Singapore for delivery within Singapore, whereby the correspondence is contracted to be delivered within the same working day;

“operator” means a person who provides an express letter service.

Class licence

3.—(1) An operator shall, upon compliance with regulation 5 and upon payment of the fee required in the conditions of class licence set out in the Schedule, be deemed to be granted a class licence under section 42 of the Act for the provision of an express letter service.

(2) Where an operator has immediately before 1st January 1998 a licence for the provision of an express letter service, that licence shall be revoked on 1st January 1998 and the operator shall be deemed to have been granted a class licence under section 42 of the Act for the provision of an express letter service.

Class licence conditions

4. An operator who is deemed to have been granted a class licence under regulation 3 shall comply with the conditions of class licence set out in the Schedule.

Registration

5. An operator shall —

(a)	register with the Authority in such form as the Authority may require; and
(b)	submit to the Authority such information in writing as the Authority may require on its particulars and on the description and scope of the express letter service provided, or intended to be provided, by the operator.

Made this 16th day of December 1997.

CHIANG CHIE FOO

Chairman,
Telecommunication Authority of Singapore.

[MINCOM TA 271.22 011.0.0; AG/LEG/SL/323/97/1 Vol. 1]

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