ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003)
(6) The registered owner shall start circulating his mass media's products six months from
the date of the issue of the registration certificate, failing which the registration certificate shall
be deemed to be cancelled.
(7) The owner of a registered 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 the registration of
the mass media service upon the same terms and conditions that applied when the mass media
service was originally registered:
Provided that if there are any material changes in the particulars furnished in connection
with the original application for registration, the owner concerned shall make a new application
for registration of the mass media service in terms of subsection (2). 38
67 Notification of changes
A mass media service shall be required to notify the Commission of any changes if—
(a) the owner is replaced;
(b) the co-owners change;
(c) the name, language, form and frequency of the periodical dissemination of mass media
products is altered;
(d) the area where the mass media products are circulated is changed;
(e) the editorial office changes its place of location and form.
68 Exemption from registration39
The following mass media services and activities are exempted from registering in terms of
this Act—
(a) a mass media service founded by or under an Act of Parliament;
(b) a mass media service consisting of the activities of a person holding a licence issued in
terms of the Broadcasting Services Act [Chapter 12:06], to the extent that such activities are permitted by such licence; or
(c) a representative office of a foreign mass media service permitted to operate in Zimbabwe in terms of section ninety;
(d) the production of publications by any enterprise, association, institution or other person that are disseminated exclusively to members or employees of that enterprise, association, institution or other person:
Provided that the Commission may require the enterprise, association, institution
or other person producing any such publication to register as a mass media service in
terms of this Part if—
(i) the publication is sold in a public place to members of the public or is otherwise not disseminated exclusively to members or employees of the enterprise,
association, institution or other person concerned; or
38
Subsection inserted by s. 10 of Act 5/2003.
39
Section substituted by s. 11 of Act 5/2003.
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