mber GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30 NOVEMBER 2001 TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMENDMENT ACT, 2001 No. 22889 21 Act No. 64,2001 (3) The subsidy for universal access projects shall be paid out of the Universal Service Fund. (4) The Agency shall supervise the execution of projects awarded under subsection (l).”. Insertion Chapter of new X103 in Act of 1996 5 29..The following Chapter is hereby inserted in the principal Act after Chapter IX: “CHAPTER X EMERGENCY CENTRES Definition 78. In this Chapter, unless thr: context otherwise indicates, ‘emergency 10 organisation’ means, in respect of any locality, the relevant police, fire, ambulance or traffic authority 01’ coast guard services for that locality and any other similar organisation providing assistance to thepublicin emergencies. Establishment Emergency Centres of 112 15 79. (1) TheMinister may b,y notice in the Gazette establish public emergency communications centres to be known as ‘112 Emergency Centres’. (2) A 112 Emergency Centre is a communications servicecentre by means of which the user of a public telephone system has the ability to reach an emergency centre by dialling the numerals 112 in order to request an emergency service. (3) 112 Emergency Centres st.all be accountable to the Minister. (4) 112 Emergency Centres shall be exempted from holding a licenceto 25 provide telecommunication services in terms of any section of this Act. Functions of 112 Emergency Centres 80. (1) 112 Emergency Centres shall transmit any telecommunication request for an emergency service to any emergency organisation. (2) Licensees required to carry calls to 112 Emergency Centres may not levy any charge on the caller for placing calls to 112 Emergency Centres. 30 (3) Licensees transporting any telecommunication from 112 Emergency Centres to any emergency organisation shall be entitled to recover fromthe relevant emergency organisation the reasonable cost that it incurs in transporting such telecommunication. emergency Public 35 81. (1) The number 112 is hereby established as the exclusive national public emergency number. (2) No person may apply for the registration interms of applicable intellectual property legislation, or any other law, of any mark or domain name containing the numerals 1-1-2 in that sequence. 40 (3) No person may call the national emergency telecommunication number, 112, for anypurpose other than a request for an emergency service contemplated in section 79(2). Standards, capabilities and operating procedures Centres of 112 Emergency 82. (1) As far as practicably possible, 112 Emergency Centres shall have voice, data and global positioning systems capability. 45