68. Every telephone company being a public service governed by the Act respecting the Régie des services publics (chapter R-8) shall, during the year following 15 November 1980 submit for approval to the Régie des services publics, a development programme for the purpose of providing to the handicapped, within a reasonable time, access to the whole of the telephone services of the territory served by it.
Such programme may take account of the rate of equipment replacement and the nature of the services offered.
The Board shall approve the programme, modify it or, as the case may be, require that a new programme be submitted to it within such time as it may determine.
After approving a programme, the Board shall see to it that it is complied with and carried out.
1978, c. 7, s. 68; 1980, c. 11, s. 103.