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CAP. 411A
[Subsidiary]
Kenya Information and Communications
[Rev. 2011
(a) provide equitable coverage and opportunities to registered political
parties participating in an election and in particular to presidential
candidates;
(b) ensure that the name of the political party or sponsor, if any, on
whose behalf a broadcast is made, is announced, immediately before
the commencement and immediately after such broadcast;
(c) permit any broadcast sponsored by or made on behalf of a political
party other than an advertisement thereof to be dramatized; and
(d) ensure that the employees of a licensee who wish to be candidates
for any elective position(s) resign from their employment with the
licensee during polling period.
Conduct of
interviews.
26. (1) A licensee shall ensure that any person who is to be interviewed
in any of the licensee’s broadcast is—
(a) advised of the subject of the interview; and
(b) informed, before the interview takes place, to determine whether
the interview is to be recorded or broadcast live.
(2) A licensee shall exercise sensitivity in conducting interviews with
bereaved persons, survivors of traumatic incidents or witnesses thereof.
Commentaries.
Sexual offences.
27. A licensee shall ensure that any commentaries that are broadcast by
a licensee, whether as comments are made by the licensee or by any person
invited by a licensee, are presented in a manner that clearly indicates that they
are based on facts which are clearly stated.
28. A licensee shall—
(a) not disclose, in a broadcast, the identity of a victim of a sexual
offence unless such victim consents in writing to the disclosure of
his or her identity.
(b) avoid the use of unnecessary or repetitive detail when broadcasting
the circumstances of a sexual offence.
Consent to broadcast.
Programme
sponsorship.
Corr. 2010.
29. A licensee shall not broadcast any information acquired from a person
without that person’s consent, unless the information so acquired is essential
to establish the credibility and authority of a source, or where the information
is clearly in the public interest.
30. A licensee—
(a) shall not accept sponsorship of news broadcasts;
(b) shall not accept sponsorship of weather broadcasts, financial
broadcasts or traffic reports: