Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In the principal Act, in section 2, — (i) after clause (3A), the following shall be inserted as clauses (3B) and (3C), namely " (3B) "cable service" means the transmission by cables of programme including retransmission by cables of any broadcast television signal; (3C) "cable television network" means any systemconsisting of a set of closed transmission paths and associated signal generation, control and distribution equipment designed to provide cable service for reception by multiple subscribers ;" (ii) in clause (4), between the word 'thereof' and punctuation mark ’ ; ' , the following shall be inserted, namely "and also includes entertainment through cable service and video cinema" ; (iii) in clause (7), between the word 'entertainment' and the punctuation mark ' ; ", the following shall be inserted, namely "and also includes any payment for cable service" ; (iv) after clause (9), the following shall be inserted as clause (10) and clause (11), namely "(10) "subscriber" means a person who receives the signal of cable television network at a place indicated by him to the proprietor of the cable television network without further transmitting it to any other person. Explanation In case of hotels, each room or premise where signals of cable television network are received shall be treated as a subscriber. (11) "video cinema" means any place where exhibition of cinematograph film or moving pictures or series of pictures in public, organised by playing or replaying of pre-recorded casette by means of a video casette player or recorder either on the screen of a television set or videoscope or otherwise is provided for commercial purposes." THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, JUNE, 1 1999 541 Amendment