(2) The refusal to correct or the infringement of the order or manner in which a correction
is to be made in terms of this Act may be appealed against to the Commission within one year
from the date of the publication of the refuted information and the Commission shall consider
the appeal within thirty days of receiving it.
89 Right of reply
(1) A person or organisation in respect of whom a mass media service has published
information that is not truthful or impinges on his rights or lawful interests shall have a right of
reply in the same mass media service at no cost to him, and the reply shall be given the same
prominence as the offending story.
(2) The reply shall be featured in the next issue of the mass media service.
90 Representative offices of foreign mass media services
(1) A representative office of foreign mass media service shall not be set up in Zimbabwe
except with the permission of the Commission.
(2) Application for permission in terms of subsection (1) shall be made in the form and
manner prescribed.
PART XIII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
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Regulatory powers of the Minister

(1) The Minister may, by regulation, order or notice, prescribe matters that, by this Act, are
required or permitted to be prescribed or that in the opinion of the Minister are necessary or
convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) Without derogating from the generality of subsection (1), regulations, orders or notices
made in terms of subsection (1) may provide for—
(a) the form, manner and period in which applications for registration shall be made;
(b) the form, manner and period in which complaints against public bodies, mass media
services and journalists shall be dealt with;
(c) the amount of annual levy payable to the Fund;
(d) the manner in which moneys held in the Fund may be invested;
(e) the fees to be paid for applications, accreditation and registration and the manner of
their payment;
(f) the form, manner and period in which requests for information from public bodies
shall be made;
(g) the standards to be observed by employees of public bodies when responding to
requests for information;
(i) the procedures to be followed when disclosing information;
(j) persons, organisations or institutions exempted from the provisions of this Act;
(k) the fee to be paid to a public body to access information or a record;
(l) personal information that may be disclosed by a public body;

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