The Laws of Zambia
(5) In determining the amount of any compensation (including costs or expenses)
payable under this section, the National Assembly, the Court and every other person shall
have due regard to the fact that the take-over has been necessitated by a state of public
emergency.
(6) The provisions of this section shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in relation to
diffusion services, the premises, apparatus, equipment and wires required in connection
therewith and the persons employed in working, maintaining or operating the same.
29. (1) In order to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Act, the
Corporation may establish an inspectorate unit and may appoint such inspectors as may
be necessary for the performance of its functions.
Inspectorate unit
(2) Every inspector shall be provided with a certificate of appointment which shall be
prima facie evidence of the inspectors appoitment as such.
(3) Any inspector carrying out any function under this Act shall, on demand by any
person affected thereby, produce for inspection the certificate referred to in subsection (2).
30.
(a)
(b)
In the performance of his duties, an inspector shall have powerif authorised in writing by a magistrate to enter at and inspect any premises-
(i)
on which a dealer carries on business; or
(ii)
on which he has reasonable cause to believe an offence against this
Act has been committed;
to inspect all books, records, returns, reports and other documents required
to be kept by a dealer under the provisions of this Act.
31. (1) The Minister may at any time cancel or refuse to issue a licence or to renew
a licence issued to a broadcaster or operator of a diffusion service in terms of this Act, if
he is satisfied, after due inquiry, that the cancellation or the refusal to issue or renew the
licence is justified in the public interest.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) the Minister may cancel or
refuse to renew a licence if he is satisfied that the broadcasting station or the receiver or
the apparatus or equipment used in connection with the broadcasting service or, as the
case may be, the diffusion service-
(a)
Powers of inspectors
prevents the erection or installation of plant, post apparatus or equipment of
the Postal and Telecommunications Corporations; or
Copyright Ministry of Legal Affairs, Government of the Republic of Zambia
Cancellation or refusal
of broadcasting and
diffusion licences