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Broadcasting
Services Act, 2001
April 04,
2001
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the Broadcasting Services Amendment Act, 2007
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AN ACT to provide
for the functions, powers and duties of the Broadcasting Authority of
Zimbabwe; to provide for the constitution of the Authority; to provide
for the planning, management, allocation, regulation and protection of
the broadcasting frequency spectrum and the regulation and licensing of
broadcasting services and systems; to provide for programme standards;
to regulate and license signal carriers; to encourage and develop the
creative arts through broadcasting content standards; to create a sense
of national identity through broadcasting services; to create a Broadcasting
Fund to help finance local broadcasting and for related purposes; and
to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.
ENACTED
by the President and the Parliament of Zimbabwe.
PART
I
Preliminary
1. Title.
2. Interpretation.
PART
II
Broadcasting
Authority of Zimbabwe
3. Establishment
and functions of Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe.
4. Appointment and
composition of Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe Board.
5. Financial and
miscellaneous provisions relating to Authority.
PART
III
Licensing
of Broadcasting Services and Systems
6. Licensing authority.
7. Broadcasting
and signal carrier licences.
8. Persons disqualified
to be licensed.
9. Restrictions
in relation to the issue of certain licences.
10. Application
for licence.
11. Terms
and conditions of licence.
12. Form and period
of validity of licence.
13. Register of
licences.
14. Renewal of licence.
15. Amendment of
licence.
16. Suspension and
cancellation of licences.
17. Licensee to
inform Authority of changes.
18. Transfer of
licences prohibited.
PART
IV
Limitation
of Control
19. Limitation
of cross-ownership between broadcasters, signal carrier licensees, newspapers,
telecommunications licensees and advertising agents.
20. Political parties
and organisations not to control broadcasting services.
21. Limitation on
control of commercial radio and television broadcasting licences.
22. Limitations
on directorships.
23. Licensees to
notify Authority of directors and persons controlling the licensee.
PART
V
Codes
of Conduct and Programme Standards
24. Development
of codes of conduct.
25. Minister may
require Authority to determine programme standards in certain cases.
PART
VI
Approval
of Type, Installation and Sites and Signal Transmitting Stations and Allocation
of Broadcasting Service Bands
26. Approval of
type, installation and sites of signal transmitting stations and allocation
of broadcasting service bands.
27. Unauthorised
possession, establishment, operation of signal transmitting stations,
etc., prohibited.
PART
VII
Broadcasting
Fund
28. Interpretation
in Part VII.
29. Establishment
and vesting of Broadcasting Fund.
30. Objects of Fund.
31. Moneys of Fund.
32. Levies.
33. Holding of Fund.
34. Financial year
of Fund.
35. Accounts and
audit of Fund.
PART
VIII
Application
of Act to Public Broadcaster
36. Application
of Act to public broadcasters.
37. Licensing of
public broadcasters.
38. Allocation of
frequencies to Broadcasting Corporation.
PART
IX
General
39. Public service
obligations of licensees.
40. Complaint procedure
of licensees.
41. Broadcasting
licensees to keep records of programmes.
42. Inspections.
43. Appeals.
44. Approval of
tariffs by Authority.
45. Exemption from
liability for Authority.
46. Regulatory powers
of Minister.
47. Savings and
transitional provisions.
48. Amendment of
Cap 12:01 and Cap 12:05.
FIRST
SCHEDULE: Planning of Broadcasting Service Bands.
SECOND
SCHEDULE: Ancillary Powers of Authority.
THIRD
SCHEDULE: Provisions Applicable to Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe
Board.
FOURTH
SCHEDULE: Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Authority.
FIFTH
SCHEDULE: Standard Conditions of Licences.
SIXTH
SCHEDULE: Local Content Conditions.
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