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Examination of
programmes by
the Authority

Communications

No. 34

107.__(1) A content service licensee shall, at the request of the
Authority, produce to the Authority a recording of every programme
broadcast in the course of its broadcasting service for examination
or reproduction, within sixty days from the date of the broadcast.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not be construed as requiring or
authorizing the Authority, in the performance of its functions, to
view programmes prior to their broadcast.

(3) The Authority shall, in addition to the provisions of this Part,
regulate content services with respect to the matters set out in the
Second Schedule.

Establishment
of the Malawi
Broadcasting
Corporation

Public service
obligations of
the Malawi
Broadcasting
Corporation

PART XIV__ThE MALAwI BROAdCASTINg CORPORATION
108.__(1) There is hereby established a corporation to be known
as the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, which shall be a public
broadcasting services licensee.
(2) The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation shall__

(a) be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a
common seal;
(b) be capable of suing and being sued in its corporate name;
(c) be capable of acquiring and disposing of any moveable or
immovable property; and
(d) subject to this Act, have the power to do or perform all such
acts or things as bodies corporate may by law do or perform.
109.__(1) The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation shall provide
public broadcasting services in accordance with the following
principles__
(a) the provision of programmes that educate, entertain and
inform;
(b) the encouragement of free and informed opinion on all
matters of public interest;
(c) the need to reflect the wide diversity of Malawi's cultural
life; and
(d) respect for human rights, the rule of law, and the
Constitution.

(2) The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation shall, in the provision
of its broadcasting services__
(a) function without any political bias and independently of
any person or entity;

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