7 ACT To provide for the establishment of the Postal and Telecommunications Authority and to provide for its functions and management; to provide for the licensing and regulation of cellular telecommunication, postal and telecommunication services; to amend the Broadcasting Act [Chapter 12:01]; to provide for the repeal of the Postal and Telecommunication Services Act [Chapter 12:02], the Posts and Telecommunications Corporation Act [Chapter 12:03] and the Radiocommunication Services Act [Chapter 12:04]; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing. [Dates of commencement: 1st September, 2000 (Parts I, II, III, IV and V, and XIII) 1st January, 2001 (Parts VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII)] ENACTED by the President and Parliament of Zimbabwe. PART I PRELIMINARY 1 Short title and date of commencement (1) This Act may be cited as the Postal and Telecommunications Act [Chapter 12:05]. (2) This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the President by statutory instrument: Provided that the President may fix different dates of commencement for different provisions of this Act. 2 Interpretation (1) In this Act ⎯ “agency service” means a service referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section one hundred and six; “aircraft station” bears the meaning assigned to that term in the First Schedule; “apparatus”, in relation to cellular telecommunication or telecommunication apparatus, means apparatus constructed or adapted for use in transmitting or receiving a cellular telecommunication or telecommunication service;