COPYRIGHT AND NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS ACT (AS AMENDED) (3) Any person who causes a broadcast to be re-broadcast or transmitted in a cable programme service, knowing that copyright subsists in the broadcast and that the re-broadcast or transmission constitutes an infringement of the copyright, shall be guilty of an offence. (4) Any person who causes a programme-carrying signal to be distributed without the authority of the owner of the copyright in the signal, knowing that copyright subsists in the signal and that the re-broadcast constitutes an infringement of the copyright, shall be guilty of an offence. (5) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment in respect of each article to which the offence relates. 60 Restriction on importation or exportation of infringing copies (1) If the owner of the copyright in any work, by written notice to the Director of Customs and Excise— (a) informs the Director that he is the owner of the copyright in the work; and (b) satisfies the Director that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that copies of the work which— (i) are infringing copies; or (ii) would be infringing copies if they had been made in Zimbabwe; have been or may be imported into or exported from Zimbabwe; and (c) requests the Director to treat the copies referred to in paragraph (b) as prohibited goods; and (d) describes the copies concerned with sufficient particularity to make them readily identifiable; the Director shall forthwith comply with the request and ensure that no such copy is imported into or exported from Zimbabwe, and that any such copy that has been imported but not yet entered is not released to the importer: Provided that the Director need not comply with such a request until the owner of the copyright furnishes him with security in such form and for such amount as the Director may require to secure the fulfilment of any liability and the payment of any expense which he may incur as a result of the detention of any copy of the work to which the request relates or as a result of anything done in relation to a copy so detained. (2) Where a request has been made under subsection (1) and has not been withdrawn, the importation into or exportation from Zimbabwe of any copy of the work to which the request relates shall be prohibited for a period of ten working days from the date on which the Director of Customs and Excise complies with the request: Provided that— (i) if within that period the owner of the copyright concerned has instituted proceedings for an order in terms of subsection (3), or proceedings for any other order leading to a decision on the merits of the matter, the importation or exportation of the copies concerned shall continue to be prohibited until the determination of those proceedings or until the court or tribunal concerned orders otherwise; Act 11/2001 - 35 Chapter 26:01