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Section 30, The Telecommunications Act, 2006

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(1) The Commission may suspend or cancel a licence onany of the following grounds:– (a) serious and repeated breaches of this Act or of the licence conditions; (b) any fraud or intentional misrepresentation by the licensee in applying for the licence; (c) when the licensee engages in or supports any activity amounting to an offence under the Treason and State Offences Act, 1963; (d) where the licensee has ceased to be an operator. (e) where the licensee has failed to comply with any regulations made under this Act; (f) where the licensee enters into receivership or liquidation or takes any action for its voluntary winding-up or dissolution or if any order is made by a court for its compulsory winding-up or dissolution, or (g) where the suspension or cancellation is in the public interest. (2) A licence shall not be suspended or cancelled under subsection (1) unless the Commission has given the operator– (a) written notice specifying in it the grounds therefor and, in the case of breach of licence conditions, the acts or omissions constituting the breach and the directions of the Commission for the rectification of such acts or omissions and the action proposed to be taken by the Commission in the event of noncompliance with the notice; (b) an opportunity to be heard, by submitting a notice not later than twenty-one days, and where necessary, within such period as the Commission considers reasonable for the operator to comply with the directives of the (3) In determining whether it is necessary to suspend or cancel a licence granted under this Act, the Commission shall consider the extent to which any person other than the licensee is likely to sustain loss or damage as a result of the suspension or cancellation. 20 21 Power to modify Act No. 10 of 1963. Suspension or cancellation of licence.

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