‘licence’ means a
licence issued under this Act;
‘licensee’ means a person who holds or is registered under a licence, except in Parts V and
XI and
section where ‘licensee’ means only a person who holds or is registered under a licence
issued
under section ;
‘message! means any sign, signal, writing, image, sound, instruction, informati
on, or
intelligence of any nature;
‘Ministry’ means the Ministry responsible for communications;
‘network termination point’ means the point determined by the technical rules for the
purposes of this Act or, in the absence of such rules—
(a) _ the first equipment socket in a private residence;
(6)
the public network termination point on the main distribution frame ina
building;
a point agreed between the customer and the owner of the communications
facility to which that customer is connected; or
(d) _ the air side of the antenna at the customer equipment, where such
equipment is connected to a network by means of radiocommunications;
(c)
‘publish’ means, where it relates to publication of a document by the Commission, to
publish in accordance with section (2);
‘radiocommunications’ means communications by means of electromagnetic waves
propagated in space without artificial guide and which are subject to regulatio
n
pursuant to a spectrum plan issued under this Act;
‘sensitive information’ has the meaning given in subsection (5);
‘specified communications network’ means a communications network that includes
a line or radiocommunications link, or a series of lines or radiocommunications links,
between two fixed points, including—
(a)
(b)
(c)
radiocommunications transmission links;
cable transmission links; and
cable access networks;
‘subsidiary company’ has the meaning given in the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 10A);
“Universal Access Fund’ means the fund established under section 5
‘Universal Access Plan’ means a plan made under section ; and
‘user’ means any person using a communications service, regardless of whether such a
person is
contracted to acquire the service.
General objectives
3.
(1) The objectives of this Act are—