ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003)
section (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. 46
(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). 47
75 Publisher's imprint
Every issue of a periodically printed publication or electronic programme shall contain a
publisher’s imprint as prescribed.
76 Deposit copies
The mass media service shall send free deposit copies of a periodical to the Commission
and the National Archives.
77 Obligatory reports48
A mass media service shall, if ordered to do so by the Commission, publish, free of charge
the full particulars or a summary approved by the Commission of a decision of a court or the
Commission pertaining to its mass media service—
(a) on the front page or centrespread, if it is a newspaper; or
(b) if it is an electronic mass media service, on three consecutive occasions during prime
time;
or in such other manner as the Commission may prescribe.
PART XII
JOURNALISTS
78 Rights of a journalist
Subject to this Act and any other law, a journalist shall have the following rights (hereafter
in this Act collectively referred to as "journalistic privilege") 49—
46
Subsection inserted by s. 14 of Act 5/2003.
47
Subsection inserted by s. 14 of Act 5/2003.
48
Section substituted by s. 15 of Act 5/2003.
49
Introductory words amended by s. 16 of Act 5/2003.
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