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(1) The Authority shall establish, control, and manage a National Electronic Communication Numbering Plan for network and applications services.

(2) The plan may set out for network and applications services conditions which include

(a). the use of different numbers for different kinds of service including emergency services,

(b) the assignment of numbers,

(c) the transfer of assigned numbers,

(d) the use of assigned numbers,

(e) requirements for network service providers and applications service providers to maintain a plan to assign and reassign numbers,

(f) the portability of assigned numbers, and

(g) the rates which may be imposed by the Authority for the assignment and transfer of numbers.

(3) The Authority shall publish in the Gazette the National Telecommunications Numbering Plan which shall specify

(a) the numbers that the Authority has determined to be available for allocation as telephone numbers,

(b) restrictions that the Authority considers appropriate for the adoption of numbers available for allocation in accordance with the plan, and

(c) restrictions that the Authority considers appropriate for all other uses to which numbers available for allocation in accordance with the plan may be put.

(4) The Authority shall periodically but in any case within two years review the National Telecommunications Numbering Plan.

(5) Subject to subsection (3), the Authority shall publish the plan on its website and in any other manner that appears to the Authority to be appropriate to bring the contents of the plan to the attention Of the general public.

(6) The plan shall be subject to the approval of the Minister and the Minister shall give or refuse approval of the plan within seven days after the submission of the plan to the Minister.

(7) The Minister may direct the exclusion from the plan of numbers that the Minister considers inappropriate for use as telephone numbers.