ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT (SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003) (3) Nothing contained in this section shall prevent any person who is an existing mass media owner as at 31st January, 2002, from continuing to be a mass media owner after that date to the extent of his ownership on that date. 66 Registration of mass media services (1) Subject to section sixty-eight, a mass media owner shall carry on the activities of a mass media service only after registering and receiving a certificate of registration in terms of this Act. 40 (2) An application for the registration of a mass media service whose products are intended for dissemination in Zimbabwe shall be submitted by its owner to the Commission in the form and manner prescribed and accompanied by the prescribed fee. (3) The Commission shall, upon receiving an application for registration, send a notification of receipt of the application to the owner or person authorised by him indicating the date when the application was received, and the Commission shall consider such application within a month of receiving it. (4) A mass media service shall be registered when it is issued with a certificate of registration by the Commission. (5) A certificate issued in terms of subsection (4) shall be valid for a period of two years and may be renewed thereafter. (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). 41 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. 40 Subsection amended by s. 10 of Act 5/2003. 41 Subsection inserted by s. 10 of Act 5/2003. 31