Act Number: 24

Act Name: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997

Year: 1997

Enactment Date: 1997-03-28

Long Title: An Act to provide for the establishment of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal to regulate the telecommunication services, adjudicate disputes, dispose of appeals and to protect the interests of service providers and consumers of the telecom sector, to promote and ensure orderly growth of the telecom sector and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Communications

Department: Department of Telecommunications

Section 13: Power of Authority to issue directions.
    The Authority may, for the discharge of its functions under sub-section (1) of section 11, issue such directions from time to time to the service providers, as it may consider necessary:
     1[Provided that no direction under sub-section (4) of section 12 or under this section shall be issued except on the matters specified in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 11.]
Notes:
1 Ins. by s. 10, ibid. (w.e.f. 24-1-2000).
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