CHAPTER II
REGULATION OF CABLE TELEVISION NETWORK
3. Cable television
networks not to be operated except after registration.-- No person shall operate a cable television network unless he is registered
as a cable operator under this Act:
Provided that a person operating a cable television network, immediately before the
commencement of this Act, may continue to do so for a period of ninety days from such
commencement; and if he has made an application for registration as a cable operator under section 4 within the said
period, till he is registered under that section or the registering authority refuses to grant
registration to him under that section.
4. Registration as cable operator.-- (1) Any person who is operating or is desirous of
operating a cable television network may
apply for registration as cable operator to
the registering authority .
(2) An application under sub-section (1) shall be made in such form and be
accompanied by such fee as may be prescribed .
(3) On receipt of the application, the registering authority shall satisfy itself
that the applicant has furnished all the required information and on being so satisfied,
register the applicant as a cable operator
and grant to him a certificate of such registration:
Provided that the registering authority may,
for reasons to be recorded in writing and communicated to the applicant, refuse to grant
registration to him if it is satisfied that he does not fulfil the conditions specified in
clause (e) of section 2.
5. programme code.-- No person shall transmit or re-transmit through a cable service any programme unless such programme is in conformity with the prescribed programme code:
Provided that nothing
in this section shall apply to the programme s
of foreign satellite channels which can be received without the use of any specialised
gadgets or decoder.
6. Advertisement Code.-- No. person
shall transmit or re-transmit through a cable
service any advertisement unless such advertisement is in conformity with the prescribed advertisement code:
Provided
that nothing in this section shall apply to the programme s of foreign satellite channels
which can be received without the use of any specialised gadgets or decoder.
7. Maintenance of Register.-- Every cable operator shall maintain a register in the
prescribed form indicating therein in
brief the programme s transmitted or
re-transmitted through the cable service during
a month and such register shall be maintained by the cable operator for a period of one year after
the actual transmission or re-transmission of the said programme s.
8.Compulsory transmission of two Doordarshan Channels.-- (1) Every cable operator using a dish antenna or
Television Receive Only shall, from the commencement of this Act, re-transmit at least two
Doordarshan channels of his choice through the cable
service .
(2) The Doordarshan channels referred to in sub-section (1)
shall be re-transmitted without any deletion or alteration of any programme transmitted on such channels.
9. Use of standard equipment in the cable television network.-- No cable operator shall, on and from the date of
the expiry of a period of three years from the date of the establishment and publication
of the Indian Standard by the Bureau of Indian Standards in accordance with the provisions
of the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), use any equipment in his cable television network unless such equipment
conforms to the said Indian Standard.
10. Cable television network not to interface with any telecommunication
system.-- Every cable operator shall ensure
that the cable television network being
operated by him does not interfere, in any way, with the functioning of the authorised
telecommunication systems.