No. 34

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Communications

193.__(1) A licensee providing facility services shall apply to the
relevant authority having jurisdiction over private or public land or
property requesting entry to, or acquisition of, the land or property
under applicable land laws.

Access to
public
or private
land

(2) Subject to subsection (1) a licensee providing facility
services may, for the purposes of enabling the provision of any
communications service to the public__
(a) enter upon any public or private land and survey the land or
any portion of it; or

(b) enter upon any public or private land in order to construct,
erect, place, maintain, examine, alter or remove any line, pole or
radio link installation that is, respectively, either the property of
the network services licensee, or is under the control of the
network services licensee.

(3) A licensee providing facility services shall enjoy the rights
and comply with the obligations specified in the Code of Conduct
set out in the Third Schedule.
194. The Authority shall be open and transparent in its
operations and shall, in this regard__

(a) submit to Parliament an Annual Report detailing its
activities, its financial performance and its annual audited
accounts for the previous financial year, within six months after
the end of the government financial year;

Transparency
of the
Authority

(b) publish, in electronic format, the Annual Report, one month
after its submission to Parliament; and

(c) publish, in electronic format, details of the contributions to,
and allocations from, the Universal Service Fund, one month
after the submission of the Annual Report to Parliament.
195.__(1) Notwithstanding any criminal sanctions under this Act,
the Authority may, if it is satisfied that a licensee has breached any
provision of this Act, or a term or condition of its licence, make any
appropriate order or impose a sanction on the licensee, and shall
inform the licensee in writing of its decision.

(2) An order made or sanction imposed under subsection (1) shall
include the following__
(a) requiring the licensee to remedy the breach;

(b) ordering the licensee to pay compensation;

(c) ordering the licensee to account for the profits made out of
the breach;

Enforcement
orders and
sanctions

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