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“ship station” bears the meaning assigned to that term in the First Schedule;
“State land” means land vested in the President, other than Communal Land;
“statutory body” means —
(a) any commission established by the Constitution; or
(b) any body corporate established directly by or under an Act for special purposes
specified in that Act, the membership of which consists wholly or mainly of persons
appointed by the President, a Vice-President, a Minister or any statutory body or by
a commission established by the Constitution;
“successor company” means any successor company formed in terms of section one hundred
and six or any subsidiary of a successor company;
“tariff” means a tariff of prices, rates, subscriptions or charges levied by a licensee other
than a private telecommunications licensee, and includes any item of such tariff;
“telecommunication authority” means⎯
(a) in the case of Zimbabwe, the Authority;
(b) in the case of any country or territory other than Zimbabwe, the duly constituted
telecommunication authority of that country or territory;
“telecommunication licence” means a licence authorising the licensee to provide a
telecommunication service or operate a telecommunication system, other than a private
telecommunication service or system;
“telecommunication line” includes any apparatus, instrument, pole, mast, standard, wire,
pipe, fibre, tunnel, pneumatic or other tube, thing or means whatever that is or may be
used in connection with or for the purpose of sending, transmitting, conveying or
receiving signs, signals, sounds, pictures or communications which are conveyed by
means of a telecommunication system;
“telecommunications” and “telecommunication services or systems” include cellular
telecommunications and cellular telecommunication services or systems;
“telecommunication service” means any telecommunication service transmitted by means of
a telecommunication system;
“telecommunication system” means any system by means of which signs, signals, sounds,
pictures or communications are conveyed by the agency of electricity, magnetism or
electromagnetism or by any agency of a like nature, whether with or without the aid of
wires, and includes telephony and telegraphy and any improvements and developments
thereof;
“telegram” means any communication transmitted or intended to be transmitted by a
telegraph service or delivered or intended to be delivered from any post office or
telegraph office as a communication transmitted either wholly or partly by a telegraph
service, and includes a communication transmitted or intended to be transmitted by
means of a radiocommunication service that is reduced to writing;
“telegraph employee” means any person employed by a telecommunication licensee to
accept, transmit or deliver telegrams;