(a) committing an offence in terms of this Act; or (b) attempting to commit or inciting another person or conspiring with another person to commit an offence in terms of this Act; or (c) being an accessory after the fact to the commission of an offence in terms of this Act; in respect of which offence the only penalty provided is imprisonment without the option of a fine, no further proceedings in respect thereof shall be taken against him without the authority of the Attorney-General, except such as the court may think necessary by remand to secure the due appearance of the person charged. PART XII GENERAL 94 Emergency and universal service obligations of certain licensees (1) In this section “community service telephone”, means any fixed-line, cellular or satellite telephone that is made available to the general public; “emergency” means any event or circumstance resulting from a major accident or natural disaster; “emergency organisation” means, in respect of any locality, the police and any fire, ambulance or other emergency service. (2) A cellular telecommunication licensee, postal licensee and telecommunication licensee shall provide such facilities as will enable a person to communicate with an emergency organisation free of charge in the event of an emergency occurring within any area serviced by it. (3) A cellular telecommunication licensee and telecommunication licensee shall endeavour to ensure that their telecommunication apparatus is compatible with peripheral devices commonly used by disabled persons. (4) Until an implementation plan covering the area and services concerned is put into effect, a cellular telecommunication licensee, postal licensee and telecommunication licensee shall provide such postal services and community service telephones, as the case may be, in such under-serviced areas and community centres within and outside such areas as the Authority, with the approval of the Minister, shall specify in the licence issued to the licensee. (5) The Authority, with the approval of the Minister, may specify a tariff for the use of community service telephones in the under-serviced areas and community centres referred to in subsection (4). 95 Inspections (1) The Authority may appoint persons employed by it to be inspectors for the purposes of this Act and shall furnish each person so appointed with a certificate signed by or on behalf of the Director-General stating that he has been appointed as an inspector. (2) An inspector or a police officer may require a person whom he has reasonable cause to suspect is a person required in terms of this Act to possess a licence, certificate or authority to produce his licence, certificate or authority, as the case may be. (3) If a person referred to in subsection (2)— (a) is unable to produce his licence, certificate or authority on demand; or (b) cannot be located at his usual or last-known place of abode or business; the inspector or police officer concerned may serve on the person a notice in the prescribed form requiring that person to produce that notice and his licence, certificate or authority to the police officer in charge of a police station within a period of seven days from the date of service of that notice. (4) A police officer to whom a notice and a licence, certificate or authority have been produced in terms of subsection (3) shall forthwith— (a) issue to the person who produced the notice and licence, certificate or authority a receipt in the prescribed form; and (b) notify the inspector or police officer who served the notice that the notice and the licence, certificate or authority have been produced. (5) If a person who has been served with a notice in terms of subsection (2)— (a) fails to comply with the requirement contained in that notice, he shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, not to be the holder of the licence, certificate or authority, as the case may be, referred to in the notice; (b) is subsequently prosecuted for failing to comply with the requirement contained in that notice, he shall be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, not to have produced that notice and his licence, certificate or authority, as the case may be, in compliance with the notice. (6) Subject to subsection (9), an inspector or a police officer may at all reasonable times enter premises (a) of a licensee; or (b) in or on which a dealer or an authorised repairer carries on business; or 35

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