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No. S 70

Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act

(Chapter 323)

Telecommunication (Dealers) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

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:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunication (Dealers) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1996.

2. Regulation 4 of the Telecommunication (Dealers) Regulations (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (2), the following paragraphs:

“(3) The Authority may issue the following classes of Dealer’s licences:

(a)	a Class “A” Telecommunication Dealer’s Licence (referred to in this regulation as a Class “A” Dealer’s licence);
(b)	a Class “B” Telecommunication Dealer’s Licence (referred to in this regulation as a Class “B” Dealer’s licence).

(4) A holder of a Class “A” Dealer’s licence may manufacture, import, sell, hire, offer or possess for sale type-approved telecommunication equipment only.

(5) A holder of a Class “B” Dealer’s licence may manufacture, import, sell, hire, offer or possess for sale any type of telecommunication equipment, but any telecommunication equipment not of a type approved by the Authority shall be imported, offered or possessed for sale or sold either —

(a)	for export purposes only and not for use in Singapore; or
(b)	to another holder of a Class “B” Dealer’s licence.

(6) No holder of a Class “A” Dealer’s licence shall possess or have in his possession any non type-approved telecommunication equipment.”; and

(b)

by re-numbering the existing paragraph (3) as paragraph (7).

[Rg 7.]

3. Regulation 13 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) The fee payable for a licence granted under these Regulations shall be as follows:

(a) Class “A” Telecommunication Dealer’s Licence (for dealing in type-approved telecommunication equipment)

$60 per annum;

(b) Class “B” Telecommunication Dealer’s Licence (for dealing in any type of telecommunication equipment)

$400 per annum.”.

4. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 22, the following regulation:

“Equipment declared for export

22A. Any dealer who imports any telecommunication equipment into Singapore declaring it to be for export shall not, except with the approval of the Authority, sell it to any person for use in Singapore.”.

Made this 31st day of January 1996.

TEO MING KIAN

Chairman,
Telecommunication Authority
of Singapore.

[ZLG/L1/04/02; AG/SL/6/92/3 Vol. 1]