Cap. 173.
Ed. 1978
Telecommunications
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of all messages or of messages of any specified class or description or of messages
sent from or addressed to any specified person or place by means of such radiocommunication station or telecommunication and all other papers relating to such
messages,
Regulations
9.—(1) The Minister may make regulations for any purpose for which
regulations. may be made under this Act and for prescribing anything that may be
prescribed under this Act and generally for the purpose of carrying this Act into
effect and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing may
make regulations with respect to any of the following matters:—
(a) the working and use of telecommunications;
(b) the examination of and issue of certificates of proficiency to operators of
telegraphs or of radio-communication stations;
(c) the secrecy of telecommunications;
(4) electrical
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
interference
with
the
working
or
using
of
any
radio-
communication apparatus and the requirements to be complied with
to prevent or reduce such interference;
the rates at which and the conditions subject to which messages shall be
accepted,
transmitted or delivered by the telecommunication
authority;
the installation by the telecommunication authority of telephones in
private houses, shops or other buildings, the use of telephones so
installed. and the charges and fees to be paid in respect of them;
the regulation of the use of any radio-communication station on board
any vessel while in the territorial waters of Fiji;
the regulation of the use of. any radio-communication station on any
aircraft while in or over Fiji or the territorial waters thereof;
(i) the
licensing
and
fees
therefor,
of dealers
in radio-communication
apparatus and the sale, transfer or use of radio-communication
apparatus; (Amended by 37 of 1966, s. 85)
@ the period during which and the conditions subject to which messages
and papers relating thereto, belonging to, or in the custody of the
telecommunication authority shall be preserved;
(k) the fees to be charged in respect of any search made for any message or
other paper relating thereto in the custody of the telecommunication
authority;
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,
() the levy of fees and other charges for the hire and use of equipment
supplied or let on hire by the telecommunication authority,
(Inserted by 37 of 1966, s. 85)
and different regulations may be made as respects different classes or descriptions
of radio-communication stations or telecommunications or as respects the same
class or description of radio-communication stations or telecommunications in
different circumstances.
a
(2) Regulations
made
under
this
section
may
impose
penalties
for any
cence
et
contravention or failure to comply with any of the provisions of such regulations.
(3) The penalties which may be imposed under subsection (2) shall not exceed
a fine of two hundred dollars or two months imprisonment or both such fine and
imprisonment together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not
exceeding ten-dollars for each day during which the offence continues.