[Rev. 2012]
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
CAP. 221
(h)
to do anything for the purpose of advancing the skill of persons
employed or to be employed by the Corporation, or the efficiency
of the equipment of the Corporation or the manner in which the
equipment is operated, including the provision by the Corporation,
and the assistance of the provision by others, of facilities for training,
education and research;
(i) to accept for broadcasting, with or without charge, advertisements and
announcements which do not conflict with the general policy of the
Corporation;
(j) to make available to broadcasting organizations the use of its sound
and television studios upon such terms as the Corporation may
determine for the purpose of preparing programmes for broadcasting;
(k) to carry on or operate such services, including wired distribution
services, as are conducive to the exercise of its duties;
(l) to apply for and obtain, purchase or otherwise acquire and turn to
account in any fitting manner any letters patent or patent rights or any
interest in letters patent, patent rights, brevets d’invention, licences,
concessions and the like conferring any right to use secret or other
information concerning any invention useful to the purposes and
functions of the Corporation;
(m) to establish and support or aid in the establishment or support of
associations, institutions, funds, trusts and amenities for the benefit
of employees or former employees of the Corporation or their
dependants or relatives, and to grant pensions and allowances, to
make payments towards insurances and to subscribe or guarantee
money for charitable or benevolent objects or for any exhibition or for
any public, general or useful project;
(n) with the approval of the Minister, to establish companies whose
objects include any of the Corporation’s powers, functions or duties
whose business is capable of being carried on in such a way as
to facilitate or advance those powers, functions or duties, and to
purchase or otherwise acquire stocks, shares or securities of, and
subsidize and assist, the companies;
(o) subject to section 39, to borrow or raise or secure the payment of
money in Kenya or elsewhere.
[Act No. 10 of 1997, Sch.]
9. Assumption of the broadcasting services of the Government
(1) The Corporation shall assume the broadcasting services of the Government
operating under the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (Nationalization) Act , 1967
(Cap. 221) (now repealed).
(2) Deleted by Act No. 7 of 1990, Sch.
(3) Deleted by Act No. 1 of 2009, s. 36.
[Act No. 7 of 1990, Sch., Act No. 1 of 2009, s. 36.]
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