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(5) A licensee shall not activate, energise or otherwise operate any transmitter or antenna system otherwise than in accordance with a condition attached to the relevant licence.
(6) A condition which relates to the matters referred to in subsection (5) shall not be attached to a licence unless the terms of the condition have previously been approved of by the Telecommunica- tions Authority, and approvals under this subsection may be given by the Telecommunications Authority either as regards transmitters or antenna systems generally or as regards transmitters or antenna systems which are of a particular class or description specified in the approval.".
16. The following is added after section 20A—
"Must carry"
provision
20B. (1) Notwithstanding anything otherwise con- tained in this Ordinance but subject to the provisions of this section, the Governor in Council may by a direction in writing require a licensee
(a) to connect to the telecommunications installation of the licensee or permit the connection to such installation of, and when so connected keep so con- nected, such other telecommunications installation or apparatus (not being an installation or apparatus owned by another licensee), or both, as is or are specified in the direction; and
(b)
(i) to permit the transmission by means, either wholly or partly, of the licensee's telecommunica- tions installation for reception in two or more places in Hong Kong, of sounds or visual images, or both, which
(A) is or are supplied by any other person, other than a licensee, for such transmis- sion; and
(B) is or are specified in the licence or is or are
of a description so specified; or
(ii) to supply for transmission by means, either wholly or partly, of the telecommunications instal- lation of any other person, other than a licensee, so specified and for such reception, sounds or visual images, or both, which—
(A) is or are so supplied by the licensee; and
(B) is or are either so specified or of such a
description.
(2) Where the Governor in Council gives a direction under this section, the licensee to whom it is given shall comply with the requirements of the direction until it is withdrawn.
(3) (a) Where it is proposed to give a direction under this section, the licensee to whom it is proposed to give the direction shall be given notice in writing of the proposed direction and of its terms.
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