ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003)
(2) A correction shall be published in the same manner as the refuted report or material was
published and shall be set up with the same type and featured under the heading “Correction”.
(3) A person aggrieved by the manner in which a correction in terms of this section is made
or published may appeal in the time and manner prescribed to the Commission. 63
88 Grounds for the refusal of correction
(1) A correction may be refused if the demand or the submitted text of correction—
(a) represents an abuse of the freedom of expression as set out in section sixty-four;
(b) contradicts a decision of a court;
(c) is anonymous;
(d) was received by the mass media service after the expiration of one year since the day
of the publication of the information to be corrected by the mass media service.
(2) …64
89 Right of reply65
(1) A person or organisation in respect of whom a mass media service has published information that is not truthful or impinges on his rights or lawful interests shall have a right of reply
in the same mass media service at no cost to him, and the reply shall be given the same prominence as the as that accorded to the offending information.66
(2) The reply shall be published in the earliest possible issue of the publication in which the
offending information appeared after the request for the reply is received. 67
90 Representative offices of foreign mass media services
(1) A representative office of a foreign mass media service shall not be set up or operated
in Zimbabwe except with the permission of the Commission. 68
(2) Application for permission in terms of subsection (1) shall be made in the form and
manner prescribed.
(3) The permission to set up or operate a representative office of a foreign mass media service shall be valid for twelve months. 69
(4) A foreign mass media service may, in the form and manner and subject to payment of
the fee prescribed, apply to the Commission for the renewal of permission to operate a representative office upon the same terms and conditions that applied when it originally applied for
permission:
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Subsection inserted by s. 20 of Act 5/2003.
64
Subsection repealed by s. 25 of as read with Schedule to Act 5/2003.
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Subsection repealed by s. 25 of as read with Schedule to Act 5/2003.
66
Subsection amended by s. 21 of Act 5/2003.
67
Subsection substituted by s. 21 of Act 5/2003.
68
Subsection amended by s. 22 of Act 5/2003.
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Subsection inserted by s. 22 of Act 5/2003.
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