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licences
of a study of—
(a) the demand for the proposed public broadcasting service within the proposed
coverage area;
(b) the likely effect on the existing broadcasting services in the coverage area; and
(c) the technical quality of the public broadcasting service, taking into account advances in
broadcasting technology,
and shall obtain the approval of the Minister.
(2) The Authority may invite any person holding a licence to provide public broadcasting
services to its delegation to any international organization concerned with broadcasting.
Control of
private
broadcasting
services
50. —(1) No person shall directly or indirectly exercise control over more than one licence
for a national private broadcasting service or be a director of a company or other body which
directly or in concert with one or more other companies or bodies exercises such control.
(2) No person shall directly or indirectly exercise control over more than two licences for
local private broadcasting services or be a director of a company or other body which
directly or in concert with one or more other companies or bodies exercise such control.
Terms and
conditions to
be contained in
broadcasting
licence
51. —(1) A broadcasting licence issued by the Authority—
(a) shall be issued on payment by the applicant of the appropriate licence fee;
(b) shall state the radio frequencies that may be used and the technical parameters of the
transmissions that may be made;
(c) shall specify the broadcasting services that may be provided and the coverage area;
and
(d) shall be valid for a period of seven years from the date when it is published in the
Gazette.
(2) A broadcasting licence may only be issued on such terms and subject to such conditions
as are consistent with the principles stated in section 4.
(3) A broadcasting licence other than for a community broadcasting service may include all or
any of the following conditions—
(a) the balance and equitable reporting during any election period;
(b) the provision of party political broadcasts during any election period;
(c) the broadcasting of news services and factual programmes;
(d) the broadcasting of programmes in support of the democratic process;
(e) the preservation of broadcast material;
(f) the provision of financial information relating to the broadcasting services provided;
(g) the limitation on the proportion of broadcasting time that may be allocated to
advertisements;
(h) the limitation on the financial or voting interest in the licence held by one or more
foreign persons to forty per cent: