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Telecommunications Amendment Act 1997

COOK ISLANDS

TELECOMMUNICATION AMENDMENT ACT 1997

ANALYSIS

Title

1. Short Title and commencement
2. Interpretation
3. Protection of network

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1997, No. 13

An Act to amend the Telecommunications Act 1989

(18 June 1997

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. Short Title and commencement - (1) This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications Amendment Act 1997 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Telecommunications Act 1989 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

(2) This Act shall come into force on the day of assent.

2. Interpretation - Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting the following terms and their definitions prior to the term "company" -

""Callback Service" means an international call established by a caller in the Cook Islands whereby a foreign telecommunication service provider or reseller in a foreign country initiates a return call or provides a dialing tone which enables the caller to make an international call through a foreign telecommunication service provider or reseller in a foreign country which results in the Company being deprived of any charges for international calls from the Cook Islands;

"Caller" means any person using a telephone for the purpose of originating a call".

3. Protection of network - Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting the following new subsection -

"4 (1A). No person shall promote or facilitate any callback service in the Cook Islands or use any telephone in the Cook Islands for the purpose of any callback service."

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This Act is administered by Telecom Cook Islands Limited