ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003)
76 Deposit copies
The mass media service shall send free deposit copies of a periodical to the Commission
and the National Archives.
77 Obligatory reports51
A mass media service shall, if ordered to do so by the Commission, publish, free of charge
the full particulars or a summary approved by the Commission of a decision of a court or the
Commission pertaining to its mass media service—
(a) on the front page or centrespread, if it is a newspaper; or
(b) if it is an electronic mass media service, on three consecutive occasions during prime
time;
or in such other manner as the Commission may prescribe.
PART XII
JOURNALISTS
78 Rights of a journalist
Subject to this Act and any other law, a journalist shall have the following rights (hereafter
in this Act collectively referred to as "journalistic privilege") 52—
(a) to enquire, gather, receive and disseminate information;
(b) to visit public bodies with the express purpose of carrying out duties as a journalist;
(c) to get access to documents and materials as prescribed in this Act;
(d) to make recordings with the use of audio-video equipment, photography and cinephotography;
(e) to refuse to prepare under his signature reports and materials inconsistent with his convictions;
(f) to prohibit the publication of, remove his or her signature from or attach conditions to
the manner of using a report or material whose content was distorted, in his or her
opinion, in the process of editorial preparation; or 53
(g) to circulate reports and materials he prepared under his signature, under a pseudonym
or without any signature.
79 Accreditation of journalists
(1) No journalist shall exercise the rights provided in section seventy-eight in Zimbabwe
without being accredited by the Commission.
(2) Subject to subsection (4), no journalist shall be accredited who is not a citizen of Zimbabwe, or is not regarded as permanently resident in Zimbabwe by virtue of the Immigration
Act [Chapter 4:02].
51
Section substituted by s. 15 of Act 5/2003.
52
Introductory words amended by s. 16 of Act 5/2003.
53
Paragraph substituted by s. 16 of Act 5/2003.
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