(v) "telecommunication service" means a service consisting in the emission, conveyance,
switching or reception of any intelligence within, or into, or from Pakistan by any
electrical, electromagnetic, electronic, optical or optioelectronic system, whether or not
the intelligence is subjected to rearrangement, computation or any other process in the
course of the service;
(w) "Trust" means the Pakistan Telecommunication Employees Trust established under
section 44;
(x) "trustees" means the board of trustees of the Trust;
1[(xa) “USF” means the Universal Service Fund established under subsection (1) of section
33A,]
(y) "video" means any visual images which are such that sequences of them may be seen as
moving images;
(z) "wireless telegraphy apparatus" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in The
Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933 (XVII of 1933).
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CHAPTER II
PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION AUTHORITY
3. Establishment of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority.__ (1) As soon as may be, after the
commencement of this Act, the Federal Government shall, by notification in the official Gazette,
establish an authority to be known as the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority which shall be a
body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal with powers, subject to the provision
of this Act, to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, and to sue and be sued by its
name.
(2) The Authority shall consist of three members one of whom shall be a professional
telecommunication engineer and other shall be a financial expert, to be appointed by the Federal
Government for a term of four years and shall be eligible for appointment for a similar term or terms
2[:]
2[Provided that the Federal Government may increase the number of members or the Authority
and prescribe their qualification and mode of appointment.].
1 Ins by Act II of 06,s.2.
2 Subs and added by Act II of 06,s.3.
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