[Chapter 12:02], the Posts and Telecommunications Corporation Act [Chapter 12:03] and the Radiocommunication Services Act [Chapter 12:04]; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing. [Dates of commencement: 1st September, 2000 (Parts I, II, III, IV and V, and XIII) 1st January, 2001 (Parts VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII)] PART I PRELIMINARY 1 2 Short title and date of commencement This Act may be cited as the Postal and Telecommunications Act, [Chapter 12:05]. Interpretation (1) In this Act  “agency service” means a service referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section one hundred and six; “aircraft station” bears the meaning assigned to that term in the First Schedule; “apparatus”, in relation to cellular telecommunication or telecommunication apparatus, means apparatus constructed or adapted for use in transmitting or receiving a cellular telecommunication or telecommunication service; “Authority” means the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe established by section three; [Definition substituted by section 18 of Act 14 of 2002] “authorised dealer” means a person authorised in terms of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section seventy to carry on the business of dealing in radio transmitting stations or radio apparatus necessary for the proper working of such stations; “authorised repairer” means a person authorised in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section seventy to carry on the business of repairing radio transmitting stations; “Board” means the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe Board referred to in section five; [Definition substituted by section 18 of Act 14 of 2002] “Broadcasting Corporation” means the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation referred to in section 3 of the Broadcasting Act [Chapter 12:01]; “broadcasting service” means a service comprising programmes for reception by members of the general public and transmitted by a broadcasting or telecommunication system; “broadcasting station” means a radio transmitting station used for the purposes of carrying on a broadcasting service; “cellular telecommunication licence” means a licence that authorises the licensee to provide a cellular telecommunication service or operate a cellular telecommunication system; “cellular telecommunication service” means a service transmitted by means of a cellular telecommunication system; “cellular telecommunication system” means a radiocommunication service designed to use a limited radio frequency spectrum between cellular handsets or other terminal equipment and network transceivers for the provision of mobile, bearer and supplementary services across the cellular network, by allocating a limited number of frequencies within each of a number of defined geographical areas or cells, allowing the re-use of the same frequencies, and enabling users to maintain connections whilst moving through different geographical areas by making use of call handover between adjacent cells; “commercial courier service” means a service for the conveyance for reward of postal articles in respect of which any undertaking is given to deliver the article to a specified destination within a specified time; “communication” means writing, signs, signals, pictures, impulses, sounds and data of any description whatsoever transmitted, tendered for transmission or received by means of a radiocommunication service or a telecommunication system; “community centre” bears the meaning assigned to that term by section seventy-two; “community service telephone” bears the meaning assigned to that term by section ninety-four; “Constitution of the Universal Postal Union” means the Constitution of the Universal Postal Union signed at Vienna on the 10th July, 1964, and the Regulations annexed thereto, or any amendment or replacement of that Constitution or regulations to which Zimbabwe is a party; “Corporation” means the Posts and Telecommunications Corporation referred to in section 3 of the Posts and Telecommunications Corporation Act [Chapter 12:02] repealed by section one hundred and fifteen; 4