PART VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS
43. Public emergencies
(1) all broadcasting service providers shall provide a public notice of an emergency
or a public disaster announcement upon the request of a person authorized by the
Government.
(2) The Commission shall prescribe, by notice in the gazette the manner in which
broadcasters shall provide information during public emergencies or national
disasters.
44. Offence and penalty.
Any person who contravenes any provision of these Regulations commits an
offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one million shillings or
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or both.
PART VIII—TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
45. Transition from analogue to digital television broadcasting [No. 1 of 2009]
(1)The Commission shall specify the following, among other conditions, in a
terrestrial digital signal distribution licence—
(a) the percentage of the multiplex capacity that shall be used for relaying
broadcast content and other related data;
(b) the technical specifications of the multiplex and associated digital
transmitters;
(c) the requirement that the signal distributor to file such tariffs it proposes to
impose on a broadcaster for approval by the Commission; and
(d) universal service obligations.
(2) After the switchover from analog to digital broadcasting, all analog television
broadcasters shall be required to relinquish the frequencies used for free-to-air
television broadcasting to the Commission.
(3) Nothing in these Regulations shall be construed as preventing the Commission
from requiring broadcasters on digital platform before the enactment of the Kenya
Communications Amendment Act, 2009, to comply with the Act and these