(e) has no program rating from Kenya Films Classification Board indicated prior
to the commencement of such programs.
20. Protection of children.
A licensee shall—
(a) ensure that due care is exercised in order to avoid content that may disturb or
be harmful to children, that has offensive language, explicit sexual or violent
material, music with sexually explicit lyrics or lyrics which depict violence;
(b) not broadcast programmes with the content specified in paragraph (a) during
the watershed period;
(c) request for permission to conduct an interview with a minor from the minor's
parents or guardian before conducting an interview with a minor.
21. News reporting.
A licensee shall ensure that news and information are broadcast and presented in a
balanced manner, without prejudice or negligent departure from facts through
distortion, exaggeration, misrepresentation and material omissions give fair
reporting regardless of its context and importance.
22. Unconfirmed reporting.
A licensee shall ensure that—
(a) reports or broadcast from its station are based on fact and that are not founded
on opinion, rumour supposition, or allegation unless the broadcast is carried out in
a manner that indicates these circumstances clearly;
(b) it does not broadcast any report where there is sufficient reason to doubt its
accuracy and it is not possible to verify the accuracy of the report before it is
broadcast.
23. Correction of errors in reports.
A licensee shall broadcast correction of any factual error(a) without reservation, as soon as it is reasonably possible after it has been
established that there was an error; and
(b) with such degree of prominence and timing and shall be broadcast during a