BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT [CHAPTER 12:06] (as at 11th January 2008) (5)57 If, at the conclusion of a public inquiry held in terms of subsection (3), the Authority is satisfied for any reason specified in subsection (1) that the licence concerned should be suspended or cancelled, the Authority shall, by notice in writing to the licensee, suspend or cancel the licence or take such other action as it considers appropriate, and publish a notice in the Gazette of such suspension or cancellation or other action. (6)No licence shall be of any force or effect during any period of its suspension. 17 Licensee to inform Authority of changes (1) A licensee shall without delay, but in any case no later than fourteen days after he becomes aware of the alteration, inform the Authority of any material alteration in the information or particulars furnished by him when he applied for his licence. (2) A licensee shall without delay inform the Authority of any transfer to or by any single person of more than ten per centum of the shares in the licensee. 18 Transfer of licences prohibited No licensee shall assign, cede, pledge, transfer or sell his licence to any other person, or surrender his programming duties to another entity outside his establishment. Any such assignment, cession, pledge, transfer, sale or surrender shall be void. PART IV LIMITATION OF CONTROL 19 …58 20 Political parties and organisations not to control broadcasting services No political party or organisation shall hold or have control of any broadcasting licence or signal carrier licence. 21 …59 22 Prohibition against non-citizens becoming directors of licensees60 No person other than a citizen of Zimbabwe shall be a director of a licensee. 23 Licensees to notify Authority of directors and persons controlling the licensee Each licensee shall, at the end of every period of six months, submit to the Authority in the prescribed form⎯ (a) details of the persons who, to the knowledge of the licensee, were in a position to exercise control of the licensee at the end of that year; and (b) the name and address of each person who was a director of the licensee at the end of that period. 57 58 59 60 Subsection substituted by s. 11 of Act 6/2003. Section repealed by s. 14 of Act 19/2007. Section repealed by s. 14 of Act 19/2007. Section substituted by s. 15 of Act 19/2007. - 22 -