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(1) A person shall ensure that the importation of radio equipment, customer premises equipment or other terminal equipment, does not damage or endanger the telecommunications network and shall comply with the procedures relating to the approval of equipment as set out in these Regulations.

(2) Despite the provisions of subregulation (1) compliance with type approval requirements does not apply to a cellular mobile phone.

(3) No equipment or any component thereof imported into OECS States shall be delivered by the Comptroller of Customs to any person unless it complies with the provisions of these Regulations.

(4) The Comptroller of Customs in any event shall not deliver such equipment or component to any person unless that person is approved by the Commission to possess or use that specific type of equipment.

(5) The Commission shall authorize an officer to inspect the said equipment or component part thereof to ensure that it complies with these Regulations.

(6) Any person to whom the Comptroller delivers equipment or any component thereof shall not part with the said equipment or component unless it is to a person who is authorized to own, possess or use that equipment or component.

(7) Every licensed telecommunications provider who comes into possession of equipment shall keep at his or her licensed address a book to be called the “Telecommunications Equipment Register” and shall immediately upon receipt of any equipment make or cause to be made therein entry of the date of such receipt the serial number and full description of each kind of equipment received and the name and address of the person from whom it is received. The licensed provider shall also enter or cause to be entered into the said Register any equipment that he or she has constructed or have for sale, use or otherwise.

(8) Every licensed telecommunications provider shall immediately after delivery of equipment from his or her licensed premises, make or cause to be made entry of the date of such delivery, the name and address of the person to whom delivered, the nature and date of the licence produced by such person with the name of the office from which it was issued, or the circumstances exempting such persons from producing such licence, the description of all equipment so delivered, and the cause of such delivery whether on sale, hire, loan or otherwise.

(9) The Telecommunications Equipment Register may be in such form as may be prescribed by the Commission and shall be produced for inspection, at the request of the Commission or of any member of the Commission who shall have power to verify the same by examination, at the premises or at a place the Commission so directs.

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)