BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT [CHAPTER 12:06] (as at 11th January 2008)
(5) An inspector or police officer may at all reasonable times enter premises⎯
(a) in or on which a dealer carries on business; or
(b) other than a dwelling-house, which are owned or occupied by a person whom he has
reasonable cause to suspect is in possession of a receiver; or
(c) in or on which he has reasonable cause to suspect an offence against this Act has been
committed;
and shall have power to make such examination, inspection and inquiry and do such things as
may appear to him necessary for ascertaining whether or not compliance has been made with
this Act.
(6) An inspector or police officer may require a dealer to produce to the inspector or police
officer such books, accounts or other documents relating to the business carried on by the dealer
and required to be kept by the dealer as the inspector or police officer may specify.
(7) An inspector shall, on demand by any person affected by the exercise of the powers
conferred upon the inspector by this section, exhibit the certificates issued to him in terms of
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Offences and penalties under Part VIIIA76
(1) A person who—
(a) fails or refuses to register as a dealer with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation
when required to do so in terms of regulations made under section forty-six; or
(b) fails or refuses to furnish a return or to supply information to the Zimbabwe
Broadcasting Corporation in the manner and in the time prescribed under section fortysix or furnishes a false or incomplete return or supplies false or incomplete information
to the Corporation; or
(c) fails to comply with the requirement contained in a notice served on him in terms of
subsection (2) of section thirty-eight D or with a requirement made by an inspector or
police officer in terms of subsection (6) of that section; or
(d) wilfully delays or obstructs an inspector or police officer in the exercise of the powers
conferred upon him by or under this Part; or
(e) fails or refuses, without reasonable cause, to give information to an inspector or police
officer, when required to do so in terms of section thirty-eight D, or gives false or
incomplete information; or
(f) fails to comply with the terms and conditions of a licence issued to him in terms of this
Part; or
(g) for the purpose of obtaining, whether for himself or another person, the issue of a
licence in terms of this Part, makes a declaration or statement which he knows to be
false in any particular or does not know or believe to be true, or knowingly makes use
of such a declaration or statement or a document containing the same; or
(h) contravenes—
(i) subsection (1) of section thirty-eight B;
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Subsection amended by s. 15 of Act 6/2003.
Section inserted by s. 16 of Act 6/2003.
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