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Broadcasting
Services Act, 2001
April 04, 2001
Contents
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
19 Limitation
of cross-ownership between broadcasters, signal carrier licensees, newspapers,
telecommunications licensees and advertising agents. TOP
(1) No broadcasting
licensee—
(a) shall own,
control or hold any securities in another broadcasting licensee;
(b) shall own
or control a newspaper or more than 10 per centum of the securities
in a body corporate owning or controlling a newspaper.
(2) A broadcasting
licensee and a signal carrier licensee shall not be owned or controlled
by the same person, nor shall broadcasting licensees and signal carrier
licensees hold securities in each other.
(3) Licensees and
persons licensed under the Postal and Telecommunications Act [Chapter 12:05]
(other than private telecommunications licensees as defined in that Act,
or individuals licensed in terms of subsection (1) of section 33
of that Act) shall not own, control or hold securities in each other.
(4) No advertising
agent shall own, control or hold securities in any licensee.
20 Political
parties and organisations not to control broadcasting services
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No political party
or organisation shall hold or have control of any broadcasting licence
or signal carrier licence.
21 Limitation
on control of commercial radio and television broadcasting licences
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No person shall control
more than one commercial radio or television broadcasting licence.
22 Limitations
on directorships TOP
(1) No person shall
be a director of more than one licensee.
(2) No person other
than a citizen of Zimbabwe ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe shall be a
director of a licensee.
(3) No person who
is a director of a licensee shall be a director of another licensee, a
newspaper enterprise, advertising agent or any person licensed under the
Postal and Telecommunications Act [Chapter 12:05] (other than
private telecommunications licensees as defined in that Act, or individuals
licensed in terms of subsection (1) of section 33 of that Act).
23 Licensees
to notify Authority of directors and persons controlling the licensee
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Each licensee shall,
at the end of every period of six months, submit to the Authority in the
prescribed form—
(a) details of
the persons who, to the knowledge of the licensee, were in a position
to exercise control of the licensee at the end of that year; and
(b) the name
and address of each person who was a director of the licensee at the
end of that period.
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