Preamble, The National Communications Authority Act, 2022

THE NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY ACT, 2022 Being an Act to establish the National Communications Authority and to provide for the licensing and regulation of electronic communications operators and other related matters. [ ] ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. Date of commencement. SIGNED this 6th day of September , 2022. DR. JULIUS MAADA BIO, President. LS ACT Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Extrordinary Vol. CXLXIII, No. 66 dated 16th September, 2022 (a) a person under the age of 18 engaged in sexually suggestive or explicit conduct; (b) a person appearing to be under the age of 18 engaged in sexually suggestive or explicit conduct; or (c) realistic images representing a person under the age of 18 or appearing to be under the age of 18 engaged in sexually suggestive or explicit conduct; “class licence” means the authorization granted by the Authority to any legal entity meeting the applicable terms and conditions, and which obliges the legal entity in question to obtain an explicit decision from the Authority before exercising rights deriving from the document, and to communicate information about the service concerned as necessary to ensure proper compliance with the applicable terms and conditions; “closed user means a supplementary service or a service group service” feature that allows users to form groups with restricted access; “computer system” means a device or a group of interconnected or related devices, one or more of which, pursuant to a program, performs the automatic processing of data; “consultation” means an engagement at which advice or views are exchanged. “consumer” means any individual or organisation who who uses or requests a publicly available electronic communications service for purposes outside of his trade, business or profession; “content” means information in the form of speech or other sound, data, text or images, whether still or moving, except where transmitted in private communications; 4 No. 16 The National Communications Authority Act 2022 No. 16 The National Communications Authority Act 2022No. 16 The National Communications Authority Act 2022 PART I – PRELIMINARY