ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003)
section (1) may declare forfeited to the State any product, equipment or apparatus used for the
purpose of or in connection with the offence.
(4) The proviso to subsection (1) and subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6) of section 62 of the
Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in relation
to a declaration made in terms of subsection (3).
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74 News agencies
(1) Subject to this Act, no person shall carry on or operate a news agency without a valid
registration certificate issued in terms of this Part.
(2) Sections sixty-eight to seventy-two shall apply to the registration of a news agency. 47
(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable, upon
conviction, to a fine not exceeding level twelve or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding
two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. 48
(4) In addition to any fine imposed in terms of subsection (2) and without derogation from
any of its powers granted under any enactment, a court convicting a person of contravening subsection (1) may declare forfeited to the State any equipment or apparatus used for the purpose of
or in connection with the offence.
(5) The proviso to subsection (1) and subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6) of section 62 of the
Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in relation
to a declaration in terms of subsection (3).
(6) Any messages or materials belonging to a news agency and distributed by another
mass media service shall state the name of the news agency.
(7) A registration certificate issued in terms of subsection (1) shall be valid for two years. 49
(8) A registered news agency may, in the form and manner and subject to payment of the
fee prescribed, apply to the Commission for the renewal of its registration upon the same terms
and conditions that applied when it was originally registered:
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). 50
75 Publisher's imprint
Every issue of a periodically printed publication or electronic programme shall contain a
publisher’s imprint as prescribed.
46
Section repealed by s. 13 of Act 5/2003.
47
Subsection amended by s. 14 of Act 5/2003.
48
Subsection amended by s. 14 of Act 5/2003 (level twelve substituted for three hundred thousand
dollars).
49
Subsection inserted by s. 14 of Act 5/2003.
50
Subsection inserted by s. 14 of Act 5/2003.
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