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Law No 13 of 1987 on the establishment of Qatar Public Telecommunications Corporation

Law Summary Record Type: LawNumber: 13Date: 23/05/1987 Corresponding to 25/09/1407 HijriNumber of Articles: 71Status: In force

Official Gazette :Issue: 6Offcial Journal Issue Publication Date: 01/01/1987 Corresponding to 01/05/1407 HijriPage from: 3326

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Procurement and use of Wireless Equipment and Frequencies

29 Article

It shall not be permitted for any natural or legal person to acquire, assemble, use or employ any wireless device or station for private use, without first obtaining a licence for the same from the Corporation, in accordance with the conditions determined therein, and the international rules supplementing the same.

And it shall be forbidden to grant a licence for private use in the case of a public communications network, with such a licence being invalid automatically and considered as withdrawn by operation of law, if there is a public communications network in operation in the region for which the licence is in effect after issue of thereof.

30 Article

It shall not be permitted to acquire, assemble or use any wireless device or station for the purposes of amateurism or a technical testing process, or scientific information, or education, or to establish or use wireless stations on board ships or aeroplanes registered in the state of Qatar, except with a specific licence from the Corporation, and in accordance with the conditions defined therein and the international rules supplementing the same.

31 Article

It shall not be permitted for any natural or legal person to use any wireless frequencies other than those assigned to him and registered in his name in the register kept for this purpose by the Corporation , and for the same a specific licence shall be issued, defining its specifications and modes of use, in accordance with the conditions specified in said licence and the international rules complementing the same.

It shall not be permitted to use any registered frequency in a manner contrary to the manner registered thereto, unless prior written permission has been obtained for the same from the Corporation.

32 Article

Applications for licences for equipment and use of wireless frequencies, as set out in articles 29, 30 and 31 of this law, shall be submitted in the form prepared by the Corporation for this purpose.

The Corporation shall have the power to issue or refuse to issue a licence without giving reasons. In every case, it shall not be permitted to issue a licence without obtaining the approval of the Ministries of Defence and Interior.

33 Article

Licences referred to in the preceding articles shall be granted for a renewable period of one year, and it shall be permitted for the Corporation to renew or refuse to renew licences without providing reasons.

The period of one year shall begin on the first of January, and end on the last day of December, of each year. Applications for renewal must be submitted before the end of the month of October of each year.

34 Article

It shall not be permitted to appoint someone as an operator of wireless equipment or a wireless frequency unless he has obtained a wireless operator's certificate from the Corporation.

These certificates shall be issued after completion of an exam, the conditions and rules for which shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

35 Article

It shall not be permitted for a licence-holder to use any wireless equipment or frequency for a purpose other than that specified in the licence, and it shall be forbidden for him to use the equipment of frequencies for the following purposes:

receiving transmissions for which he has not been licenced. In cases where this happens by chance, it shall not be permitted for him to record said transmissions, transmit the same to others or use them for any purpose.
sending or attempting to send transmissions which are seriously false or tend to serious falsehood.
sending or attempting to send transmissions, messages, images or representations or any other thing contravening public order or decency or social or public security.
transmitting or attempting to transmit any television programme.
transmitting or receiving any transmission which is forbidden by any future resolution of the Corporation.

36 Article

It shall not be permitted for the licence-holder to transfer property in the wireless equipment, station or frequency which is subject to the licence, or loan, hire or dispose freely of the same in any way, or advertise regarding the same, without obtaining prior consent of the Corporation.

Any contravention of this rule shall result in the licence being deemed invalid by force of law merely by issue of disposal or advertising, without the need for any legal order or administrative resolution requiring the same.

It shall be permitted for the Corporation to confiscate administratively any equipment or station involved in the contravention.

37 Article

The Corporation has the power to invalidate a licence at any time when it is shown to it that the licence-holder has infringed any condition, international supplementary rule, or provision enacted in this law.

In addition it shall be permitted for the Corporation, when the public interest so requires, to subject a licence to special conditions, or invalidate or suspend the same, or temporarily seize the equipment or stations from the person licenced for them, and deliver the same to any government authority to use them, or to prohibit use of the same in defined areas.

38 Article

If the use of wireless apparatus results in interference or disruption in the use of another wireless apparatus, then it shall be permitted for the Corporation - based on a request from the owner of the article and after an investigation into the truth of the complaint - to compel the owner of the equipment which caused the interference or disruption to take any measure to resolve the matter within a specified period. If he should fail or delay in implementing the same, it shall be permitted for the Corporation to undertake the measures at his expense.

39 Article

Every person arriving in the country, national or foreigner, in possession of a wireless device, must notify the customs or border authorities of his possession immediately he arrives. He shall give up the same to them as to be returned to him at the time of his departure from the country, or his acquisition of a licence from the Corporation for use thereof.

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