IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by sections 27 of the Kenya Information and Communications Act, 1998, the Minister for Information and Communications, in consultation with the Communications Commission of Kenya, makes the following Regulations:— THE KENYA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (IMPORTATION, TYPE APPROVAL AND DISTRIBUTION OF COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT) REGULATIONS, 2010 1. Citation. These Regulations may be cited as the Kenya Information and Communications (Importation, Type Approval and Distribution of Communications Equipment) Regulations, 2010. 2. Interpretation. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires— “communication equipment” means telecommunication equipment, radio communication equipment or broadcasting apparatus; “national standards” means the Kenya standards established by consensus and approved by the Kenya Bureau of Standards, that provide, for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for products and services and related processes or production methods, aimed at achieving the optimum degree of order in a given context including terminology, symbols, packaging, marking or labeling requirements as they apply to a product, process or production method; “operating network” means a network that can carry communications traffic in the form of voice or data; “service provider” means a person providing communication services under the Act; “type acceptance” means the process of evaluating communications equipment that has been type approved by a recognized foreign national regulatory authority with a view to ensure conformity of such equipment to national standards; “type approval” means a method of checking the compatibility of communications equipment with any operating communication network and the conformance of