Republic of Namibia
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Annotated Statutes
Namibian Broadcasting Act 9 of 1991
shall be payable in respect of the first month of the licensing year if such person already had
such a licence at the end of the previous licensing year and the licence in respect of the new
licensing year is taken out by him or her not later than the end of the first month of the new
licensing year.
(5) Any person, except a radio dealer, who sells, gives or in any other manner supplies
any television set to any person other than a radio dealer, shall within 14 days after such
television set is delivered to such other person, notify the Corporation in writing of (a)
the name and address of such person;
(b)
the date on which such television set was delivered; and
(c)
the number of the licence under which such first-mentioned person was in
possession of that television set.
Permit for possession of television set
17. The Corporation may issue to any person a permit for a period specified in such
permit to have in his or her possession any television set on condition that such television set is
not during that period used for the purpose of receiving anything broadcast in a broadcasting
service, and may in its discretion seal that television set free of charge in order to prevent the
use thereof for such purpose.
Inspectors
18. (1) Any person authorised thereto by the Corporation in writing, may at any
reasonable time (a)
require any person who is required to be in possession of a television licence, to
produce such licence to him or her for inspection;
(b)
require any person who has the possession or custody of a television set, or the
owner, occupier or person in control of any premises in or on which there is any
television set, to produce such television set to him or her for examination or to
furnish such information as he or she may be able to furnish and which may be
necessary in order to ascertain whether the provisions of this Act have been
complied with in relation to that television set;
(c)
require any radio dealer to produce to him or her for inspection the documents kept
by him or her in terms of section 12(2) of the Radio Act, 1952 (Act 3 of 1952), or
by virtue of an authorisation under section 26(2) of this Act and inspect such
documents and make extracts therefrom or copies thereof;
[The Radio Act 3 of 1952 has been replaced by the Communications Act 8 of 2009.]
(d)
enter upon any land in so far as it may be necessary in order to exercise any power
conferred upon him or her under this section.
(2)
(a) Any person referred to in subsection (1) who exercise any powers or carries
out any functions under this section shall, on demand by any person, produce for
inspection his or her written authorisation referred to in that subsection.
(b)
The Corporation may from time to time authorise any member of the Namibian
Police Force established under section 2 of the Police Act, 1990 (Act 19 of 1990),