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under the Act of 1996 or to 'cause suspension
functions or services of any
licensee for such
deem
necessary.
However,
the
54(3)
has
expressly
confined
been
happening
of
the
President’.
The
that the
licensee
whose
account
of invoking
Suspend
or
‘proclamation
proviso
provides
to
Federal
facility
the
‘cause
powers
by no stretch
(3)
may
section
eventuality
emergency
of
or
by
the
section
54
compensate
have
been
described
of
under
the
section
services
suspension
54(3) of the Act of 1996.
to
of
sub
time as it may
vested
Government
and
services of any licensee’
1996,
power
of operations’,
affected
ibid. The
operation,
any
on
power
to
functions
is exclusively provided
or
under section
It is relevant to note that the Act of
of the
imagination,
independently
vests
power in the President to 'proclaim an emergency’. The power
and
jurisdiction
‘Proclamation
Constitution
10.
vested
in
of Emergency'
the
is provided
relating
under
to
the
Part X of the
i.e. from Articles 232 to 237.
A plain reading of the Act of 1996 as a whole and the
above
highlighted
said
statute
alia,
all
provisions
unambiguously
is a comprehensive
special
matters
to
telecommunication
relating
industry
and
licensee as well as a customer
such
President
as
mobile
exclusively
Suspend
or
service
regulated
cause
law
the
suspension
Act
of
of
the
inter
regulationThe
rights
of telecommunication
are
that
covering,
the
services.
operations,
under
shows
of
of
services,
determinable
1996.
operations,
The
a
power
functions
and
to
or