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operation of the service or system in question by any prior licensee may be
compromised if the application is granted; or
(c) considers that it would not be in the public interest to issue a licence to the applicant;
subject to regulations the Authority may refuse to issue a licence to the applicant concerned:
Provided that—
(i) before refusing to issue a licence on the ground referred to in paragraph (a), the
Authority shall notify the applicant in writing that it proposes to refuse the
application and of its reasons for doing so, and shall afford the applicant an
adequate opportunity to make representations in the matter;
(ii) within ten days after deciding to refuse to issue a licence on any ground, the
Authority shall notify the applicant in writing of its decision and of the reasons
for it.
(7) The period between the Authority’s receipt of an application in terms of subsection (1)
and all documents and information submitted in support of it, and the date on which it notifies the
applicant of its decision or proposed decision in terms of subsection (4) or (6), as the case may
be, shall not exceed six months unless the applicant consents to an extension of the period.
38 Terms and conditions of licence
(1) A licence shall be issued subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed or as
the Authority may reasonably determine.
(2) In the case of a licence issued to an applicant referred to in subsection (2) of section
thirty-seven, the licence may be issued subject to the condition that the licensee shall divest
himself within a specified time of any holding of shares in another licensee exceeding ten per
centum.
(3) No radio station licensee shall employ a person who is not a citizen of Zimbabwe
ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe to work or assist in the working or maintenance of a licensed
radio station or to carry on or assist in carrying on a radiocommunication service from a licensed
radio station.
(4) It shall be a condition of every cellular telecommunication licence and telecommunication
licence which authorises the licensee to operate a radiocommunication service that the licensee
shall comply with the International Telecommunication Constitution.
(5) It shall be a condition of every postal licence that the licensee shall comply with the
Constitution of the Universal Postal Union.
(6) In issuing or renewing a radio station licence, the Authority may impose terms and
conditions in regard to the site at which, the purposes for which, the times during which and the
manner in which the radio station in respect of which the licence is issued is to be established and
worked, the class or type of the radio station and the method of its installation, and in so doing
may exclude or vary, as circumstances may require, any prescribed terms or conditions.
39 Form and period of validity of licence
(1) A licence shall be in the prescribed form and shall specify⎯
(a) the type of licence; and
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