Thursday 1 December 2016

Online information services excludes from the definition of telecommunication services (CBEC, Notification No.51/2016, Dated – 30th November 2016).


CBEC notifies “Place of provision of services (Second Amendment) Rules, 2016”. It shall come into force on the 1st day of December, 2016.

By “Place of provision of services (Second Amendment) Rules,2016” ,CBEC amends, clause (q), in rule 2 of the Place provision of services Rules,2012.

In Rule 2 , clause (q) (Definition of Telecommunication services) , after the word “include broadcasting”, the word “and online information and database access or retrieval” shall be inserted.

Now it is read as

"telecommunication service" means service of any description (including electronic mail, voice mail, data services, audio text services, video text services, radio paging and cellular mobile telephone services) which is made available to users by means of any transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature, by wire, radio, visual or other electro-magnetic means but shall not include broadcasting and online information and database access or retrieval services .

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