A domestic free pay television programme service licensee or sound broadcasting licensee is also disqualified from holding another broadcasting licence.

The Authority has the power to require the licensee to produce for examination any books, records or other documents required to be held by the licensee and may also require them to provide any information, documents in relation to the licensee and its business.

The Authority has a duty of confidentiality in relation to information or documents acquired in the performance of its functions in respect of any licensee of affairs of any licensee or client of the licensee. Section 12(2) lays down the exceptions that may relieve SIBA from the duty of confidentiality.

(v) Any buyer or other transferee (including a lessee or licensee) of the encumbered asset.

Thus the Authority may give directions to the licensee or may even suspend its license.

Section 8 of the act provides for certain duties imposed on the licensee Such as maintaining such records and documents relating to its business or clients and making sure that clients funds remain separate from that of the licensee.

This includes an order of the court, the consent of a licensee or client, where the information is in public domain or where it is disclosed in statistical form or is conveyed in a manner where the identity of the licensee or client cannot be ascertained.

That practice was done for a variety of reasons depending on business goals, market situations, type of licensee and antitrust considerations.

(b) The licensor should identify a contact person in its organization with whom the licensee could communicate directly on all matters relating to technology transfer

(d) Technology transfer would enable the licensee to acquire skills that could be used for developing new products using the same technology but for different applications.

Section 13(1) provides that SIBA has the power to give directions to the business providing such a service and may even issue guidelines for proper conduct of business by the licensee under this act.

Another area that required attention was technology licensing, which was important for a variety of reasons depending on business goals, market situations, the type of licensee, antitrust considerations and the type of intellectual property right.

Such authority shall monitor the activities of licensees and whenever necessary may make enquiries or examine documents or records of any licensee for the purpose of ensuring that the provisions of this act are complied with.

The last recommendation was another form of spin off benefit of space technology that could have a multiplier effect, resulting in the development of many different products by the licensee, with or without assistance from space laboratories.

Section 3 lays down a code of practice for the licensees whereby every licensee shall at all times know and be able to identify its client and be able to identify the beneficial owners of it client companies.

Section 14(1) lays down the powers of the Authority in the event that the licensee carries on its business detrimental to the public interest in contravention of section 6 to 13 or in breach of the regulation or any law.

the Director of Prosecutions the Commissioner of Inland Revenue or the appropriate supervisory authority of financial institutions outside Barbados at the request of that authority, where the branch, holding company or affiliate of the licensee is operating in that country.

any supervisory or regulatory authority of financial institutions in Barbados and the appropriate supervisory or regulatory authority of financial institutions of another country, at the request of that authority, where there is a branch, holding company or affiliate of the licensee operating in that country.

a licensee from including in its licensed service a television programme, or any part thereof, that is likely, in Hong Kong, to incite hatred against any group of persons by reference to colour, race, sex, religion, nationality or ethnic or national origins or result in a general breakdown in law and order or gravely damage public health or morals.