(1) The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Commission or otherwise, make regulations, to be published in the Gazette, for all or any of the following purposes:

 

(a) the procedures for the Commission and the Appeal Tribunal in the exercise of their powers and functions under this Act;

 

(b) the form of, and requirements for, written authorisations, assignments and licences granted or issued under this Act;

 

(c) the procedures for the assignment of rights to the spectrum or numbers under Part VII, including mechanisms for rate-based assignment;

 

(d) any fees, charges or rates to be imposed; 

 

(e) the procedures for the implementation of a system of universal service provision under Part VIII, including but not limited to the quality of service standards;

 

(f) the procedures for the use of network facilities, network services, applications services and content applications services in emergency or distress situations;

 

(g) the compounding of offences; 

 

(h) any redress, including compensation or penalties in respect of a breach of or offence against any subsidiary legislation;

 

(i) any matter for which this Act makes express provision; and

 

(j) such other matters as are necessary for giving full effect to the provisions of this Act and for their due administration.
 

(2) The regulations made under subsection (1), or any other subsidiary legislation made under this Act, may prescribe any act in contravention of the regulations, or other subsidiary legislation, to be an offence and may prescribe penalties of a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand ringgit or a term of imprisonment not exceeding three years or both for such offence and, in the case of a continuing offence, may prescribe, in addition to such penalties, a fine of one thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

[Am. Act A1220.]