No. S 278
Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act
(Chapter 323)
Telecommunication (Class Licences) 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:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunication (Class Licences) Regulations 1996 and shall come into operation on 1st July 1996.
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 or Third Schedule;
“existing licence” means a licence granted by the Authority before 1st July 1996;
“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 an existing licence 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 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, which licence shall expire on the date when his existing licence would otherwise have expired.
(2)  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 access to the bulletin board system is restricted to the officers and employees of the statutory body, company or business which operates it.
Fee payable upon registration
5.  An operator shall pay such fee as may be required in the class licence appropriate to the type of specified telecommunication systems and services run by him.

Made this 1st day of April 1996.

TEO MING KIAN
Chairman,
Telecommunication Authority of Singapore.
[ZLG/L1/04/06; AG/SL/6/92/1]