Section 5 CAP. 35.05 (2) 5 6 7 Tuvalu Telecommunications Corporation Act The Corporation is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and is capable of — (a) subject to section 5 (restriction on alienation of native land) of the Native Lands Act, acquiring, holding and disposing of property of every description; (b) suing and being sued in its corporate name; and (c) doing and suffering all such acts and things as bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer. Functions of Corporation (1) The Corporation shall carry on the business of supplying telecommunication services and establishing and developing telecommunication systems. (2) Without in any way limiting the generality of subsection (1) of this section, the Corporation shall establish, develop, conduct, work, operate and maintain telecommunication services and telecommunication systems in Tuvalu as a business and to that end to provide those services to such point within and outside Tuvalu as the Corporation shall see fit. Corporation’s sole right to supply telecommunication services systems (1) Subject to subsection (2) of section 3 of this Act and subsection (2) of this section the Corporation shall have the sole and exclusive right to supply telecommunication services and to establish and develop telecommunication systems in Tuvalu in accordance with its functions and powers under this Act. (2) Where the Corporation is for any reasons unable to supply or provide a telecommunication service to any person in any part of Tuvalu or to establish and develop an appropriate telecommunication system for that person, it may in accordance with the regulations made by the Minister under this Act, licence a person as it may consider fit and suitable to supply or provide the service at a cost to be paid for by the person requiring the service and upon such other conditions as may be prescribed by regulations and contained in the licence. Powers of Corporation relating to land (1) In carrying out its functions and in the exercise of its powers under this Act, the Corporation and any person acting under its power and direction may do all or any of the following — (a) Page 8 enter upon and survey and take levels of any land or any part of that land and may do anything on that land for any purpose in connection with the supply of telecommunication services, the establishment of telecommunication systems and the placement of telecommunication 2008 Revised Edition