CHAPTER 469 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

INDEX TO SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

Telecommunications (Resale of Service) Regulations

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (RESALE OF SERVICE) REGULATIONS

[Section 22]

[RETAINED AS PER SECTION 15 OF THE INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS ACT]

Arrangement of Regulations

   Regulation

   1.   Title

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   2.   Interpretation

   3.   Application

   4.   Fee

   5.   Offence

      SCHEDULE

SI 129 of 1994.

[Regulations by the Minister]

1. Title

These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunications (Resale of Service) Regulations.

2. Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

"customer" means the proprietor of an institution referred to under Regulation 3.

3. Application

These Regulations shall apply to hotels, lodges, guest houses, hostels or any public house where there is no provision of a public payphone, but shall not apply to a person licensed to provide a public payphone of any kind.

4. Fee

A customer may charge a fee for the use of a telephone service calculated according to the formular described in the Schedule.

5. Offence

A customer who charges a fee above the value chargeable in the Schedule shall be committing an offence under section 21 of the Act.

SCHEDULE

[Regulations 4 and 5]

The chargeable value shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula:

Charge = Rate + (Rate x 0.25)

Where rate is the operator rate obtaining at the time for the call to that destination.{/mprestriction}