PTA Notifies ‘Regulations for Technical Implementation of Mobile Banking (Amendment), 2019’

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has notified “Regulations for Technical Implementation of Mobile Banking (Amendment), 2019”.

The regulations allow telecom operators, Authorized Financial Institutions (AFIs) and Third Party Service Provider (TPSP) to enter into interconnecting agreements to extend telecommunication services and systems to facilitate each other in the provision of Technical Services for mobile banking.

PTA Notifies ‘Regulations for Technical Implementation of Mobile Banking (Amendment), 2019’

The regulations states that, “pursuant to policy directive of the federal government i.e. Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom on Technical Implementation of Mobile Banking including Mobile Money Transfers, and Remittance, PTA, in exercise of powers conferred under clause (O) of sub-section (2) of section 5 of Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) Act, 1996, the Authority hereby makes the following regulations, namely:- ‘

These regulations shall be called the “Regulations for, Technical Implementation of Mobile Banking (Amendment), 2019” and shall come into force ‘from the date of gazette notification’.

Amendment in regulation 5 of S.R.O 391(1)12016:-  In regulation 5 of Regulations for Technical Implementation of Mobile Banking at page 1389 of S.R.O 397(1)120l6 of 2.016, new clause (xxvii) shall be inserted after Clause (xxvi) of sub-regulation (2) of regulation 5 and be read as follows:

(xxvii) “Telecom operators, AFI(s) and TPSP (s) shall enter into interconnects agreements as per the terms and conditions set out in SLAs to extend telecommunication services and systems to facilitate each other in the provision of Technical Services for mobile banking!’.

Amendment in regulation 8 of S.R.O 397(l)12016;-: In regulation 8 of Regulations for Technical Implementation of Mobile Banking 2016 at page 1390 of S.R.O 397(1)12016 of 2016, sub-regulation (2) of regulation 8 shall be substituted and read as follows;

“Telecom operator(s), AFI(s) and TPSP(s) shall enter into interconnects agreements as per the terms and conditions set out in SLA to extend ‘telecommunication services and systems to facilitate each other in the provision of technical services for mobile banking’.

 

 

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