2 ADOPTS: CHAPTER OE. DEFIITIOS Article One In this law : 1° “Law” refers to the law governing telecommunications 2° “Catastrophic conditions” refers to any unforeseen catastrophic network breakdown howsoever caused. This includes failure of switching and transmission equipment, destruction of part of the network by reason of industrial action by employees, riot, civil or international war, insurrection, vandalism, weather conditions judged to be extreme, earthquake, flood, lightning or fire, or theft. 3° “Consumer equipment” refers to terminal equipment which can be installed and rendered operational by a user without special instruction and includes telephone handsets, facsimile machines and telephone answering machines and any other similar equipment which may be so designated by the Regulatory Board. 4° “Court” refers to mean the competent judicial tribunal designated to hear telecommunications cases. 5° “Dominant organizations” refers to an individual or organization providing public networks and/or public telephone services who has been designated as a dominant organization by this law. 6° “Individual licence” refers to a licence granted by an individual decision of the competent Minister to an individual granting authority for the provision of a public network and/or public telecommunications service which may have specific rights or obligations attached to it supplementing the terms of a standard licence as set out in Article 6 of this law. 7° “Infrastructure” refers to pipes, ducts, tunnels, aerials, masts and pylons as well as all other structures fixed to the ground or attached to buildings. 8° “Interception of communications” refers to listening, tapping, recording, storing, decrypting, intercepting, interfering with, or carrying out any other type of surveillance over voice and data communications without the knowledge of the user, unless that user has given explicit permission. 9° “Interconnection” refers to reciprocal services (but not necessarily the same services) offered by two operators providing a public telephone service in order to allow all users to communicate freely amongst themselves, regardless of the telecommunications networks to which they are connected or the telecommunications services they use. 10° “Leased lines” refers to the telecommunications facilities which provide for transparent transmission capacity between network termination points and which do not include on demand switching (switching functions which the user can control as part of the leased line provision). They may include systems which allow flexible use of the leased line bandwidth including certain routing and management capabilities.