BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT [CHAPTER 12:06] (as at 11th January 2008) understandings or practices whether or not having legal or equitable force and whether or not based on legal or equitable rights; “Corporation” means the Posts and Telecommunications Corporation as defined in the Postal and Telecommunications Act [Chapter 12:05], and includes any successor company of the Corporation formed in terms of that Act; “datacasting service” means an information service that delivers information, whether in the form of data, text, speeches, images or any other form, to persons having equipment appropriate for receiving that information, where the delivery of the service uses the broadcasting service bands; “diffusion service” includes the dissemination⎯ (a) by means of any conducting medium of the whole or any part of writing, signs, signals, pictures, impulses or sounds broadcast by a broadcasting service; or (b) of music, speech, pictures or other data for information, education or entertainment purposes by means of any conducting medium connected to two or more items of apparatus specifically designed for the reproduction of sound, pictures or data; or (c) of teletext and vertical blanking intervals; "foreign donation or contribution"8 means a donation or contribution made otherwise than for commercial reasons alone by⎯ (a) a person who is not a permanent resident or citizen of Zimbabwe domiciled in Zimbabwe; or (b) a company which is not incorporated in Zimbabwe or, if so incorporated, does not carry on business in Zimbabwe; or (c) any association of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated, that does not consist exclusively of permanent residents or citizens of Zimbabwe, domiciled in Zimbabwe; “free-to-air broadcasting service” means any broadcasting service transmitted otherwise than by means of an encoded signal; “International Telecommunication Constitution” means the International Telecommunication Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union signed in Geneva on the 22nd December, 1992, and the Regulations annexed thereto, or any other international telecommunication convention or agreement to which Zimbabwe may be a party and any regulations annexed thereto; “licence” means a broadcasting licence or a signal carrier licence; “licence area” bears the meaning assigned to that term in paragraph 1 of the First Schedule; “licensee” means a holder of a broadcasting licence or signal carrier licence; “Minister” means the Minister of State for Information and Publicity in the President’s Office or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act; “member” means a member of the Board; 8 Definition inserted by s. 10(b) of Act 26/2001 and amended by s. 2 of Act 6/2003. -6-