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Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005)

Chapter 6 : Technical Equipment and Standards

35. Approval of type

 

(1) No person may possess, use, supply, sell, offer for sale or lease or hire any type of electronic communications equipment or electronic communications facility, including radio apparatus, used or to be used in connection with the provision of electronic communications, unless such equipment, electronic communications facility or radio apparatus has, subject to subsection (2), been approved by the Authority.

[Section 35(1) substituted by section 17 of the Electronic Communications Amendment Act, 2014 (Act No. 1 of 2014)]

 

(2) The Authority may prescribe—
(a) the types of equipment, electronic communications facilities and radio apparatus, the use of which does not require approval where such equipment, electronic communications facilities and radio apparatus has been approved for use by the European Telecommunications Standards Associations or other competent standards body where the equipment complies with type approval standards prescribed by the Authority; and
(b) circumstances under which the use of equipment, electronic communications facilities, radio apparatus and subscriber equipment does not require approval, including uses for research and development, demonstrations of prototypes and testing.