CHAPTER 10 - FINAL PROVISIONS
Article (80)
Federal Law No. (1) of 1991 regarding the Emirates Telecommunications
Corporation shall be amended as set out hereunder subject to any relevant
transitional provisions under this Federal Law by Decree:
1-
Articles 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, and
48 shall be repealed.
2-
Article 1 shall be amended by deleting reference to, and definition of,
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(A)
“the Minister”;
(B)
“Communications Equipment”;
(C)
“the Schedule”; and
(D)
“Service Lines”.
Article 24 of Federal Law No. (1) of 1991 referred to shall be amended by
inserting the following sentence at the beginning of the said Article:
“subject to the regulations, instructions, decisions, and policies issued
by the General Authority for Regulating the Telecommunications
Sector”.
4-
The second paragraph of Article 41 of Federal Law No (1) of 1991
referred to shall be amended as follows:
“The Articles of Association shall be issued pursuant to a decision
by the Council of Ministers and the amendment of the Articles and
the replacement thereof shall be pursuant to a decision issued by the
Board5 for the Supervision of the Telecommunications Sector”.
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The provisions of Articles 4, 21, 25, 31, 33 and 47 of Federal Law No
(1) of 1991 shall be replaced with the following provisions:
Article (4)
(1)
Etisalat Corporation shall undertake telecommunications services,
operate, maintain, and develop the entire public telecommunications
system in the State and also between the State and the foreign
countries in accordance with the provisions of any laws relating to
telecommunications and may exercise the powers to achieve its
objectives including:
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