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(d)
may determine the standards of radio method and interference
causing apparatus and technical conditions applicable thereto.
(3)
In determining the standards, criteria and the method for verifying their
compliance, the Commission shall be guided by the needs for a safe, modern and
efficient telecommunication service and interconnection.
(4)
The Commission shall not, before determining under this section the
standards, criteria and related conditions of licence, impose any restriction as to
whether or not any apparatus manufactured by a company or other enterprise may be
used in providing a service for which licence is necessary.
52.
Technical standards etc. of terminal apparatus.- (1) The Commission shall,
form time to time, make and publish, a directory wherein the names and specifications,
technical standards and related matters of terminal apparatus shall be specified.
(2)
Every person shall follow the directory in manufacturing, importing and
marketing terminal apparatus and installing them in a telecommunication system.
53.
Search etc. for harmful interference.- (1) It shall be lawful for the
Commission to search out harmful interference, and where the Commission finds that a
person has in his possession or control interference causing radio apparatus or other
apparatus, it may order the person to stop the operation of that apparatus or to repair or
substitute the apparatus within a time specified in the order, so that the interference may
not be caused any more.
(2)
A person commits an offence if he contravenes an order under sub-section
(1) or fails to comply with such order, and for such offence he shall be liable to be
sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 (three) years or to a fine not
exceeding 3 (three) lac taka or to both.
(3)
Where an information is obtained with the help of electronic or other
device used in the monitoring or surveillance activities for finding out harmful
interference and such information is printed on a document under the signature of an
authorized officer of the Commission or is attested by that officer, the information shall
be admissible as evidence in any proceedings of the Commission or a Court.
54.
Determination of the standards of telecommunication.- (1) The Commission
may, by making regulations or by publishing notice at least in two widely circulated
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