Telecommunications (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1997 (59 of 1997)

Part 3   Transitional

Division 9   Transitional provisions relating to the international aspects of carriers' activities

64   INTELSAT and Inmarsat - policy notifications and directions to continue in force

 

(1) This section applies to a person if:

(a) the person was a carrier (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1991 (the 1991 Act )) immediately before 1 July 1997; and

(b) a notification or direction was in force in relation to the person under section 74 of the 1991 Act immediately before 1 July 1997.

      

(2) Despite the repeal of the 1991 Act by this Act, section 74 of the 1991 Act continues to apply, in relation to the person, during the interim period, as if:

(a) section 74 of the 1991 Act had not been repealed; and

(b) each reference in that section to a carrier (within the meaning of the 1991 Act) were a reference to a carrier (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1997); and

(c) a reference in that section to a licence were a reference to a carrier licence (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1997).

      

(3) In this section:

interim period means the period:

(a) beginning on 1 July 1997; and

(b) ending on the first occasion when a direction is given under section 365 of the Telecommunications Act 1997.