(2) The Commission shall not refund the registration fee if a certificate of registration is
cancelled in terms of subsection (1).
(3) A mass media service whose certificate of registration is cancelled in terms of this
section by reason of fraud, misrepresentation or non-disclosure of a material fact or
contravention of sections sixty-five, seventy-five and eighty-nine shall cease to operate forthwith
and may not reapply for registration until after the expiry of a period of one year.
(4) Before taking any action in terms of subsection (1), the Commission shall notify the
mass media service in writing of its intention to suspend or cancel the registration certificate of
the mass media service and the reasons for doing so, and shall call upon the mass media service
to show cause, within such reasonable period as may be specified in the notice, why the
registration certificate should not be suspended or cancelled, as the case may be.
(5) If, at the expiry of the period specified in the notice given in terms of subsection (4),
and after considering any representations made by the mass media service, the Commission is
satisfied for any reason specified in subsection (1) that the registration certificate concerned
should be suspended or cancelled, the Commission may, by notice in writing to the mass media
service, suspend or cancel the registration certificate or take such other action as it considers
appropriate.
(6) Without derogation from its powers in terms of subsection (1), where the Commission
is satisfied that a mass media service is contravening, has contravened or is likely to contravene
any of the provisions of this Act, the Commission may serve upon the mass media service an
order⎯
(a) requiring the mass media owner to do, or not to do, such things as are specified in the
order for the purpose rectifying or avoiding any contravention or threatened
contravention of this Act; and
(b) stipulating the period within which any requirement referred to in paragraph (a) shall
be commenced and completed.
(7) Before serving an order in terms of subsection (6), the Commission shall serve a notice
upon the mass media owner concerned⎯
(a) specifying the grounds upon which the order is to be issued and what the Commission
considers is required for the purpose of rectifying or avoiding any contravention or
threatened contravention of this Act; and
(b) stipulating the maximum period that the Commission considers reasonable for the
implementation of any requirement it proposes to order; and
(c) calling upon the mass media owner, if he wishes to make representations, to make
them to the Commission within such period from the date of service of the notice as it
shall specify.
(8) After considering any representations made in terms of paragraph (c) of subsection (7),
the Commission may serve, or refrain from or defer serving, an order in terms of subsection (6),
or serve an order on different terms.
(9) An order served in terms of subsection (6) may specify a penalty for each day that the
mass media service subjected to the order is in default of compliance with the order, not
exceeding the period and amount prescribed.

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