(i) This Ordinance may be called the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Ordinance, 1996.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
Short title, extent and commencement.
2 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [ PART II— Definitions. 2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "appointed day" means the day with effect from which the Authority is established under sub-section (1) of section 3;
(b) "Authority" means the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India established under sub-section (1) of section 3;
(c) "Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Authority appointed under subsection (3) of section 3;
(d) "Fund" means the Fund constituted under sub-section (1) of section 22;
(e) "member" means a member of the Authority appointed under sub-section (3) of section 3 and includes the Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson;
(f) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance;
(h) "regulations" means regulations made by the Authority under this Ordinance;
(i) "telecommunication service" means service of any description (including electronic mail, voice mail, data services, audio tex services, video tex services, radio paging and cellular mobile telephone services) which is made available to users by means of any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature, by wire, radio, visual or other electro-magnetic means.
(2) Words and expressions used and not defined in this Ordinance but defined in the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 or the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in those Acts.
(3) Any reference in this Ordinance to a law which is not in force in the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall in relation to that State be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in that Slate.
13 of 1885 17 of 1933.
Establishment and incorporation of the Authority.
CHAPTER II TELECOM REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF INDIA