P.U.(A) 124/2000
COMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA (TECHNICAL STANDARDS) REGULATIONS 2000
PART I - PRELIMINARY
Regulation 2. Interpretation.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -
"candidate" means a person who has applied for an examination for a certificate of proficiency under Part IV;
"certification program" means a program, including its processes or procedures, to certify communications equipment or persons;
"certified", and its cognate expressions, means confirmation that the standards or proficiencies under these Regulations have been complied with;
"code group" means a series of -
(a) characters consisting of letters, accented letters, punctuation marks or a combination of them; and
(b) figures including the fraction bar or the decimal mark;
"communications equipment" means any network facilities or customer equipment;
"current standards" means the standards relevant to the subject matter of these Regulations prevailing at the time of the coming into operation of these Regulations;
"designated skill area" means a skill area designated by the Commission under regulation 26;
"GMDSS" means the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System derived and established by the International Maritime Organisation;
"International Telecommunication Convention" means the Constitution and Telecommunication Union Convention of the International Telecommunication Union signed in Geneva in 1992 relating to telecommunications and includes any subsequent constitution or convention to which the Government is a party and it extends to any radiocommunications regulations made under the Constitution or Convention; and if any amendment of the Constitution and Convention comes into operation with respect to Malaysia, it shall be construed as the Constitution and the Convention as amended;
"lightwave apparatus" means any apparatus requiring optical lenses or optical surfaces for operation;
"Malaysian standard" means a standard declared to be a standard specification or a provisional standard specification under the Standards of Malaysia Act 1996 [Act 549];
"plain language" means prose text excluding accented letters, figures or punctuation marks;
"prescribed fee" means the relevant fee as prescribed by the Commission in the First Schedule;
"proficient", and its cognate expressions, means that the relevant person has been confirmed as having the minimum proficiency levels in accordance with the standards;
"radio waves" means electromagnetic waves of frequencies arbitrarily lower than 3000 GHz propagated in space without artificial guides;
"radiocommunications" means communications by means of radio waves;
"standards" means the applicable technical standards or proficiency tests including processes and procedures, whether set out in the current standards, mandatory standards, technical codes or Malaysian standards and established for the purpose of ensuring proficiency levels of persons and the safety, non-interference levels, performance levels and interoperability of any communications equipment;
"supplier" means -
(a) a manufacturer or importer of communications equipment; or
(b) an authorised agent of the manufacturer or importer of communications equipment,
who holds a compliance certificate under these Regulations;
"word", in relation to Part IV, means for counting purposes in plain language and code group portions of international Morse Code examinations, the unit of measurement consisting of letters, accented letters, figures and punctuation marks counted at the rate of five characters per word with letters counted as one character each and accented letters, figures and punctuation marks counted as two characters each.
