South Africa - 2014 - Information, Communication and Technology

Electronic Communications Amendment Act, 2014

Communications, South Africa

An Act designed to amend the Electronic Communications Act, 2005, so as to insert, amend or delete certain definitions, to align the Act with broad-based black economic empowerment legislation, to refine provisions relating to licensing, to make further provision towards ensuring effective competition amongst persons licensed under the Act, to remove regulatory bottlenecks, to require the Minister of Communications to establish a council to advise the Minister on broadband policy and implementation, to make further provision for the discounted rate at which Internet services must be provided to schools, educational institutions and public health establishments, to authorise the Minister to require that certain information be submitted to the Minister and to make provision for the fiduciary duties of members of the Board of the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa.

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January 2022

An Act designed to amend the Electronic Communications Act, 2005, so as to insert, amend or delete certain definitions, to align the Act with broad-based black economic empowerment legislation, to refine provisions relating to licensing, to make further provision towards ensuring effective competition amongst persons licensed under the Act, to remove regulatory bottlenecks, to require the Minister of Communications to establish a council to advise the Minister on broadband policy and implementation, to make further provision for the discounted rate at which Internet services must be provided to schools, educational institutions and public health establishments, to authorise the Minister to require that certain information be submitted to the Minister and to make provision for the fiduciary duties of members of the Board of the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa.

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