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Definition of “Small Cable Transmission System” Regulations

Version of section 3 from 2006-03-22 to 2014-04-22:

  •  (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4) and section 4, small cable transmission system means a cable transmission system that transmits a signal, with or without a fee, to not more than 2,000 premises in the same service area.

  • (2) For the purpose of subsection (1), where a cable transmission system is included in the same unit as one or more other cable transmission systems, the number of premises to which the cable transmission system transmits a signal is deemed to be equal to the total number of premises to which all cable transmission systems included in that unit transmit a signal.

  • (3) For the purpose of subsection (2), a cable transmission system is included in the same unit as one or more other cable transmission systems where

    • (a) they are owned or directly or indirectly controlled by the same person or group of persons; and

    • (b) their service areas are each less than 5 km distant, at some point, from at least one other among them, and those service areas would constitute a series of contiguous service areas, in a linear or non-linear configuration, were it not for that distance.

  • (4) Subsection (2) does not apply to a cable transmission system that was included in a unit on December 31, 1993.

  • SOR/2005-148, s. 4

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