The Laws of Zambia
1. To acquire, establish and construct broadcasting stations, studios, offices and other premises necessary or
convenient for the purposes of the undertakings of the Corporation, and for this purpose, to buy, take on lease or in
exchange hire or otherwise acquire immovable property within Zambia and interests therein and rights over the same and
concessions, grants, rights, powers and privileges in respect thereof, and to act in that connection either absolutely or
conditionally and either solely or jointly with others.
2. To buy, take in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire vehicles, machinery, plant, apparatus and other movable
property necessary or convenient for the exercise of the functions of the Corporation, or for the purposes of the
undertakings of the Corporation, and to act in that connection either absolutely or conditionally and either solely or jointly
with others.
3. To maintain, alter and improve property acquired by the Corporation.
4. To apply for, buy or otherwise acquire(a)
copyrights and performing rights; and(b)
patents, licences, concessions or the like: conferring an
exclusive or non-exclusive or limited right to use information or a process which may seem to the Board
capable of being used for the purposes of the Corporation or the acquisition of which may seem to the Board
calculated, directly or indirectly, to benefit the Corporation, and to use, exercise, develop and grant licences in
respect of or otherwise turn to account rights, information and processes so acquired.
5. To establish orchestras, bands and choirs, engage artists and performers and organise, provide or subsidise
public concerts, lectures and other performances or entertainment.
6. To cause descriptions of or commentaries on current events to be broadcast or diffused from the locality where
they are taking place.
7. To broadcast or diffuse religious services and addresses.
8. To collect and collate news from any source and enter into agreements for the supply to the Corporation of news
for the purpose of broadcasting or diffusing the same.
9. To obtain from or grant to a government operator of a diffusion service or other person whatsoever, whether within
or outside Zambia and gratuitously or otherwise, rights or concessions in connection with the broadcasting or diffusion by
the Corporation or programme broadcast or diffused by the Corporation or, as the case may be, the government,
broadcaster, operator or other person.
10. To compile, print, publish and distribute, with or without charge, publications relating wholly or partly to the
broadcasting or diffusion services of the Corporation or to the undertakings of the Corporation.
11. To enter, with the approval of the Minister, into agreements with persons in connection with the operation of
diffusion services.
12. To carry on or operate, with the approval of the Minister, broadcasting and diffusion services in conjunction or
association with other persons.
13. To broadcast or diffuse advertisements for periods which do not(a)
in the aggregate amount to more than fifteen per centum of the time each day during which the service in
which the advertisements are included is broadcast or diffused; and
(b)
in each hour during which the service in which the advertisements are included is broadcast or diffused
amount to more than ten minutes;
or for such longer period or, as the case may be, periods the Board, with the approval of the Minister, may, by varying one
or other or both of the time limits specified in this paragraph, determine.
14. To sell, exchange, lease, mortgage, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with any movable assets of the
Corporation or any part thereof and, with the approval of the Minister, any immovable assets of the Corporation or any part
thereof, which are not required for the purposes of the Corporation for such consideration as the Board may determine.
15. To draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading
and other negotiable and transferable instruments.
16. To insure against losses, damages, risks and liabilities which the Corporation may incur.
17. To make contracts and to enter into suretyships or give guarantees in connection with the exercise of the
functions of the Corporation or the undertakings of the Corporation and to modify or rescind such contracts and to modify
or rescind such suretyships or guarantees.
18. To invest monies of the Corporation not immediately required by the Corporation in such manner as the Board
may, with the approval of the Minister, determine and to vary or realise investments so made.
19. To raise monies, temporarily or otherwise, by way of loans or by bank overdraft for such purposes as the Minister
may approve.
20. To pay a person in the employment of the Corporation such remuneration and allowances as may be fixed in
terms of subsection (3) of section Seventeen and to grant a person in the employment of the Corporation such periods of
leave as are stipulated or in respect of which provision is made in his terms and conditions of service and, with the
approval of the Minister, to make gifts, bonuses and the like to a person in the employment of the Corporation.
21. To provide pecuniary benefits for persons in the employment of the Corporation on their retirement, death or
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