licensee;
(b)
shall own or control a newspaper or more than ten per centum of the
securities in a body corporate owning or controlling a newspaper.
(2) A broadcasting licensee and a signal carrier licensee shall not be owned o
r
controlled by the same person, nor shall broadcasting licensees and signal carrie r
licensees hold securities in each other.
(3) Licensees and persons licensed under the Postal and Telecommunications Act
[Chapter 12:05] (other than private teleco mmunications licensees as defined in that
Act, or individuals licensed in terms of subsection (1) of section 33 of that Act) shall
not own, control or hold securities in each other.
(4) No advertising agent shall own, control or hold securities in any licensee.
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Political parties and organisations not to control broadcasting services
No political party or organisa tion shall hold or have c ontrol of any broadcasting
licence or signal carrier licence.
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Limitation on control of commercial radio and tele vision broadcasting
licences
No person shall control more than one comm ercial radio or tele vision broadcasting
licence.
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Limitations on directorships
(1) No person shall be a director of more than one licensee.
(2) No person other than a citizen of Zimbabwe ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe
shall be a director of a licensee.
(3) No person who is a director of a licens ee shall be a director of another licensee, a
newspaper enterprise, advertising agent or any person licensed under the Postal and
Telecommunications Act [Cha pter 12:05] (other than private telecommunications
licensees as defined in that Act, or indivi duals licensed in terms of subsection (1) o f
section 33 of that Act).
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Licensees to notify Authority of directors and persons controlling the licensee
Each licensee shall, at the end of every pe riod of six months, subm it to the Authority
in the prescribed form—
(a)
details of the persons who, to the knowledge of the licensee, were in a
position to exercise control of the licensee at the end of that year; and
(b)
the name and address of each person who was a director of the
licensee at the end of that period.
PART V
CODES OF CONDUCT AND PROGRAMME STANDARDS
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Development of codes of conduct
(1) The Authority shall, in consultation with broadcasting licensees, develop codes of
conduct governing—
(a)
the rules of conduct to be observed by broadcasting licensees;
(b)
the standards and practices to be observe d in advertising through a
broadcasting service, including the prohibiti on of certain methods and practices o f
advertising, the length of advertisements and times at which ce rtain advertisements
may not be aired or aired with restrictions.
(2) Without derogating from the generality of subsection (1) c odes of conduct shall
provide for—
(a)
broadcasting of programmes that ar e in accordance with community
values and standards; and
(b)
methods of ensuring the expression of chil dren while protecting them
from exposure to programme material which may be harmful to them; and
(c)
methods of classifying programmes; and
(d)
promoting accuracy, balance, fairness and completeness in news and
current affairs programmes; and
(e)
the safeguarding of national security; and
(f)
the ethics and standards of coverage of civil and public disorder; and