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Accounts and audit of Fund
(1) The Authority shall cause proper books of accounts of the Fund to be kept,
together with adequate fi nancial and other r ecords in relation thereto, and, within
three months after the end of the financial year to wh ich the accounts relate, shall
submit the accounts for auditing by the pers on appointed in terms of subsection (2)
and to the Comptroller and Auditor-General.
(2) The accounts of the Fund shall be a udited by a person appr oved by the Ministe r
who is registered as a public auditor under the Public Accountants and Auditors Act
[Chapter 27:12].
PART VIII
APPLICATION OF ACT TO PUBLIC BROADCASTERS
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Application of Act to public broadcasters
Subject to this Act and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation Act [Chapter 12:01],
this Act shall apply to the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation referred to in section
3 of that Act (hereinafter in this Part refe rred to as “t he Broadcasting Corporation”)
and any other public broadcaster.
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Licensing of public broadcasters
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Broadcasting Corporation
shall be deemed to be licensed to provide every class of broadc asting service that it
provided immediately before the date of commencement of this Act.
(2) The Minister shall without delay cause the relevant licenses to be issued to the
Broadcasting Corporation and any other publ ic broadcaster, and those licenses may
be renewed or amended in all respects as if they had been issued in terms of Part III.
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Allocation of frequencies to Broadcasting Corporation
All frequencies allocated immediately before the date of commencement of this Act
to the Broadcasting Corporation under any enactment shall continue to be operated
exclusively by the Broadcasting Corporation.
PART VIIIA
LISTENERS’ LICENCES
38A Interpretation in Part VIIIA
In this Part and section forty-six—
“broadcasting company” and “Corporation”
[definitions repealed by Act 6/2003 with effect from the 19th September, 2003.]
“dealer” includes¾
(a)
a person who carries on a trade, business or industry in which
receivers are assembled, manufactured, imported, bought, sold, hired or exchanged or
offered or exposed for sale, hire or exchange; or
(b)
a person who deals in motor-vehicles in which receivers are installed;
or
(c)
an auctioneer of receivers; or
(d)
the employee or agent of a person referred to in paragraph (a), (b) o r
(c);
“digital conversion signal ca rrier company” means the co mpany formed in terms o f
section 3 of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (Commercialisation) Act, 2001,
as the successor to the signal carriage functions of the Corporation.
“former Corporation” means the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Co rporation referred to in
section 3 of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Act [Chapter 12:01];
[inserted by Act 6/2003 with effect from the 19th September, 2003.]
“inspector” means an inspector appointed in terms of subsection (a1) of section 38D;
[inserted by Act 6/2003 with effect from the 19th September, 2003.]
“listener” means a person who has in his po ssession a receiver ot herwise than in his
capacity as—
(a)
an operator of a diffusion service; or
(b)
the legal representative of a person who is of unsound mind or who
has died or who—