PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION (RE‑ORGANIZATION) ACT, 1996
1ACT XVII OF 1996
An Act to provide for re‑organisation of telecommunication system
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for re‑organisation of telecommunication system in
Pakistan by establishing the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the Frequency Allocation Board,
National Telecommunication Corporation and the Pakistan Telecommunication Employees Trust,
regulation of telecommunication industry, transfer of telecommunication services to private sector
and for matter connected therewith or incidental thereto ;
It is hereby enacted as follows:__
CAHPTER I
PRELIMNARY
1.Short title, extent and commencement.__ (1) This Act may be called the Pakistan
Telecommunications (Re‑organisation) Act, 1996.
(2) It extends to the whole of Pakistan.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions. In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,__
(a) 1[Access Promotion Contribution (APC)” means the payments made by LDI Licensees to
LL Licensees or to the Universal Service Fund pursuant to the rules made under this Act;]
1[(ab) “appropriate Government” means__
(i) in relation to a right of way owned or manage by any person, local authority within its
territory, corporation or other public bodies created by or under any provincial law,
the respective Provincial Government; and
(ii) in relation to any, right or way owned or managed by any person, local authority not
within any province or corporation or other bodies created by or under any Federal
law, the Federal Government;
(ac) “Approved Crypto Apparatus” means the hardware or software or combination of both,
or the ciphering facilities, used for conversion of plain text into cypher text and vice
versa and of which Federal Government has granted approval and the Electronic
Certification Accreditation Council established under section 18 of the Electronic
Transaction Ordinance, 2002 (LI of 2002), has granted accreditation certificate for its use
for private sector;
1 Applied to FATA by SRO 717 (1)/2001, dt: 181001
2 Subs. and ins. by Act II of 2006, s. 2.
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