[Rev. 2012]
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
CAP. 221
CHAPTER 221
KENYA BROADCASTING CORPORATION ACT
[Date of assent: 19th December, 1988.]
[Date of commencement: 1st February, 1989.]
An Act of Parliament to establish the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
to assume the Government functions of producing and broadcasting
programmes or parts of programmes by sound or television; to provide
for the management, powers, functions and duties of the Corporation; and
for connected purposes
[Act No. 15 of 1988, L.N. 23/1989, Act No. 7 of 1990, Act No. 10 of 1997,
Act No. 15 of 2003, Act No. 1 of 2009.]
PART I – PRELIMINARY
1. Short title and application
(1) This Act may be cited as the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Act.
(2) Deleted by Act No. 1 of 2009, s. 36.
[Act No. 1 of 2009, s. 36.]
2. Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“artiste” means a person, not being an employee of the Corporation, who
is invited or engaged to participate in the production and broadcasting of
programmes or parts of programmes by sound or television for the Corporation;
“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation established by
section 4;
“broadcasting” means radio communication, whether by sound or vision,
for reception by members of the public;
“chairman” means the chairman of the Board appointed under
section 4(1)(a);
“Corporation” means the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation established by
section 3;
“installations” includes aerials, masts, overhead wires or cables,
underground cables and fixed apparatus for radio communication, telephone,
electrical generation and wired distribution services;
“managing director” means the person appointed to that office under
section 5(1);
“radio communication” means emitting or receiving, over paths which
are not provided by any material substance constructed or arranged for that
purpose, of electro-magnetic energy of a frequency not exceeding three million
megahertz being energy which either—
(a) serves for the conveying of the message, sound or visual images
(whether the messages, sound or visual images are actually
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