BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT [CHAPTER 12:06] (as at 11th January 2008)
(3) Subsection (3) shall not apply to a listener⎯
(a) who is a bona fide tourist residing outside Zimbabwe and who has brought a receiver
temporarily into Zimbabwe for a period not exceeding three months; or
(b) whose receiver is capable of use solely in connection with a diffusion service.
38C Collection of licence fees72
Licence fees referred to in subsection (2) of section thirty-eight B, less such amounts as may
be payable for the services of the agents of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation referred to
in subsection (1) of section thirty-eight B, shall be paid into the general funds of the Zimbabwe
Broadcasting Corporation for the use of the Corporation.
38D Appointment of inspectors and powers of inspectors and police officers73
(a1)74 The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation may appoint persons employed by it to be
inspectors for the purposes of this Part and shall furnish each person so appointed with a
certificate signed on behalf of the company stating that he has been appointed as an inspector.
(1) An inspector or police officer may require a person who he has reasonable cause to
suspect is a listener to produce his licence for inspection.
(2) If a person referred to in subsection (1)⎯
(a) is unable to produce his licence on demand; or
(b) cannot be located at his usual or last known place of abode or business;
the inspector or police officer concerned may serve on that person a notice in the prescribed
form requiring that person to produce that notice and his licence to the police officer in charge
of a police station within a period of seven days from the date of service of that notice.
(3) It shall be the duty of a police officer to whom a notice and licence have been produced
in terms of subsection (2) forthwith⎯
(a) to issue to the person who produced the notice and licence a receipt in the prescribed
form; and
(b) to notify the inspector or police officer who served the notice that the notice and
licence have been so produced.
(4) If a person referred to in subsection (1) who is unable to produce his licence on demand
or cannot be located at his usual or last known place of abode or business is served with a notice
referred to in subsection (2) and⎯
(a) fails to comply with the requirement contained in that notice, he shall be presumed,
until the contrary is proved, not to have been issued with a licence;
(b) is subsequently prosecuted for failing to complying with the requirement contained in
that notice, he shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, not to have produced
that notice and his licence in compliance with the requirement contained in t hat notice
if the inspector of police officer who served that notice has not been notified in terms
of paragraph (b) of subsection (3).
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Section substituted by s. 14 of Act 6/2003.
Section heading substituted by s. 15 of Act 6/2003.
Subsection inserted by s. 15 of Act 6/2003.
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