Page 55 of 82 (8) For getting a radio apparatus licence, allocation of a radio frequency or technical acceptance certificate, an application shall be submitted to the Commission; and within 7 (seven) days of the receipt of such application, the Commission shall send it, with comments, if any, to the Committee which shall, within the next 30 days, make such inquiry on the matter as it considers necessary and present the application with its comments and recommendations to the Commission. (9) The Commission shall, after consideration of the comments and recommendations of the Committee on the concerned application, take decision on the issuance of a licence for radio apparatus or, as the case may be, a technical acceptance certificate or allocation of radio frequency; and shall in all cases determine the conditions applicable thereto after consideration of the Committee’s recommendation. 57. Technical Acceptance Certificate.- (1) The Commission may, by issuing notice in at least two widely circulated national dailies published from Dhaka, or by making regulations, specify the radio apparatus or interference causing apparatus for which technical acceptance certificate is necessary. (2) When a technical acceptance certificate in relation to an apparatus is required by a notice published, or by regulations made, under sub-section (1), no person shall, except in accordance with such certificate, use, distribute, sell or offer for sale, lease out or demonstrate that apparatus. (3) A person commits an offence if he violates sub-section (2), and for such offence he shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 (five) years or to a fine not exceeding 5 (five) lac taka or to both. (4) The Commission shall, in relation to an apparatus mentioned in sub- section (1),(a) make regulations on the standards determined by the Spectrum Management Committee under section 56(5)(f) or publish such standards in at least two widely circulated national dailies; or (b) make regulations specifying the procedure and other matters relating to the issuance of a technical acceptance certificate, and renewal, suspension and cancellation thereof, and until such regulations are made, those matters shall be determined by administrative orders. BTRC-TelecomLaw2001.doc 55 - 55 -