ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT (as amended January 2008) Provided that if there are any material changes in the particulars furnished in connection with the original application for registration, the news agency concerned shall make a new application for registration in terms of subsection (1). 75 (9) Sections 70 and 71 shall apply with such changes as may be necessary to a news agency. 76 75 Publisher's imprint Every issue of a periodically printed publication or electronic programme shall contain a publisher’s imprint as prescribed. 76 Deposit copies The mass media service shall send free deposit copies of a periodical to the Commission and the National Archives. 77 Obligatory reports77 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 Privileges of accredited journalists 78 (1) Subject to this Act and any other law, every accredited journalist shall have the following privileges— (a) to visit Parliament and any public body referred to in Part I of the Second Schedule with the express purpose of carrying out duties as a journalist; (b) to be given prior access or privileged access to records to which access is permitted in terms of this Act or to such other records or documents as may be prescribed; (c) to attend any national event with the express purpose of carrying out duties as a journalist; (d) to attend, as of right, and notwithstanding any reservation of the right of admission (but subject to the payment of such fee as may be required of other members of the 75 Subsection inserted by s. 14 of Act 5/2003. 76 Subsection inserted by s. 14 of Act 20/2007. 77 Section substituted by s. 15 of Act 5/2003. 78 Section substituted by s. 15 of Act 20/2007. 44

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