8
No. 6
Issue of ficence
Broadcasting Services
1993
(b) the desirability or otherwise of allowing any person or association
of person, to have control of a substantial interest in:
(i) more than one broadcasting service;
(ii) more than one radio station and one television station and
one registered newspaper which a common coverage and
distribution area or significantly overlapping coverage and
distribution areas;
(c) compliance with the prescribed technical broadcasting standards;
(d) whether the conditions of a broadcasting licence shall unjustly
benefit one holder of a broadcasting licence above another;
(e) the allocation of spectrum resources in such a manner as to ensure
the widest possible diversity of programming and the optimal
utilisation of such resources, provide that priority may be given
to broadcasters transmitting the maximum number of hours per
day;
(f) the reservation of spectrum resources for future use;
(g) the desirability of giving priority to community-based or national
development broadcasts;
(h) the extent to which the applicant is determined and has planned
to train local staff in matters concerning radio or television broadcasting.
(4) The Commission shall publish in the Gazette and in any newspaper
published in the United Republic a notice in respect of every application
for the issue of a licence which it has received.
(5) Any person may, within fourteen days of publication of a notice
under subsection (4) lodge with the Commission written representations
if he wants to oppose the grant of a licence to the applicant, and such
representations shall be taken into account when the Commission considers the application.
(6) Money paid to the Commission along with an application under
this section shall not be refundable.
11--(1) Where the Commission is satisfied that a particular applicant
meets the requirements of this Act for a licence holder it shall grant
him a licence in the prescribed form and subject to payment of the
prescribed fee.
(2) Upon the grant by the Commission of an application under section
10, it shall cause notice of that decision to be published in the Gazette
and in any newspaper published in the United Republic, as well as to
be given to the applicant.
(3) Where the Commission decides to grant an application for a licence, it may attach conditions to the licence in relation to(a) the frequencies that may be used in the operation of a station,
the power limitations in respect of a station, the technical servicing
and inspection of a station and any other technical specifications;