ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE (MODIFICATION OF CABLE SYSTEM AGREEMENT AND LICENCES) REGULATIONS

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE (MODIFICATION

OF CABLE SYSTEM AGREEMENT AND LICENCES)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 399.21

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE

(MODIFICATION OF CABLE SYSTEM

AGREEMENT AND LICENCES) REGULATIONS

4th March, 2001

LEGAL NOTICE 50 of 2001.

The title of these regulations is the Electronic

Communications Service (Modification of Cable System

Agreement and Licences) Regulations.

In these regulations -

"Act" means the Electronic Communications (Regulation) Act,

and includes the First Schedule thereto;

"the Instrument of Modification" means the Instrument of

Modification of the original licence issued by the Minister under

article 46 of the Act on the 4th March, 2001 in respect of the said

original licence, which instrument was laid on the Table of the

House on the 5th March, 2001;

"the original licence" means the agreement concluded between

the Government of Malta represented by Mr George W. Borg,

Secretary General and Secretary to the Cabinet, and Melita Cable

TV Limited represented by Mr. Gene Schneider, Chairman, United

Holdings Inc., on the third (3rd) day of June of the year one

thousand nine hundred and ninety one (1991) and the Licence

entitled "Licence for Malta Cable TV System" granted to Melita

Cable TV Ltd according to the terms of the said Agreement and

included in "Attachment A" to the said Agreement and the Licence

granted by the Electronic Communications Regulator with the

concurrence of the Minister responsible for electronic

communications under the Electronic Communications

(Regulation) Act to Melita Cable TV p.l.c. on the 6th January, 1998

with effect from the 2nd January, 1998;

"the modified licence" means the original licence as modified by

the Instrument of Modification.

The terms and conditions of the original licence shall, as

from the 4th March, 2001 and for the purpose of putting into effect

the provisions of the Act and of implementing the liberalisation of

the Maltese electronic communications market in accordance with

the Act and of implementing a new commercial and regulatory

framework as has been deemed appropriate for the propose of

implementing the provisions of the Act, be modified to the terms

and conditions included in the modified licence and in accordance

therewith.

These regulations shall complement the Instrument of

Modification, and nothing in these regulations shall be interpreted

as prejudicing the force, effect and validity of the Instrument of

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE (MODIFICATION

OF CABLE SYSTEM AGREEMENT AND LICENCES)

Modification.