(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable, upon
conviction, to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a
period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(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.
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 reports
A mass media service shall be obliged to publish, free of charge and in the prescribed
manner a decision of a court or the Commission pertaining to its mass media service that has
come into effect, if it is a newspaper, on the front page or centrespread and if it is electronic
media, three times during prime time.
PART XII
JOURNALISTS
78 Rights of a journalist
Subject to this Act and any other law, a journalist shall have the right—
(a) to enquire, gather, receive and disseminate information;
(b) to visit public bodies with the express purpose of carrying out duties as a journalist;
(c) to get access to documents and materials as prescribed in this Act;
(d) to make recordings with the use of audio-video equipment, photography and cinephotography;
(e) to refuse to prepare under his signature reports and materials inconsistent with his
convictions;
(f) to remove his signature from a report or material whose content was distorted, in his
opinion, in the process of editorial preparations or to ban or stipulate in any other way
the conditions and manner of using this report ;

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