Independent Broadcasting
Authority

[No. 17 of 2002

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GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA

ACT
No. 17 of 2002
Date of Assent: 31st December, 2002
An Act to establish the Independent Broadcasting Authority and
to define its functions; to provide for the control and regulation
of broadcasting and diffusion services; and to provide for
matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.
[31st December, 2002
ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia.

Enactment

PARTI
PRELIMINARY

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Independent Broadcasting
Authority Act, 2002.

Short title and
commencement

(2) This Act shall come into operation on such date as the Minister
may, by statutory instrument, appoint, provided that the Minister shall
not appoint a day that is later than six months after the enactment of
the Act.
(3) Where a day is not appointed under subsection (2), the Act
shall be deemed to come into force on the date of expiration of the
period referred to in that subsection.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
" appointments committee " means an appointments committee
appointed under section eight,
" Authority "means the Independent Broadcasting Authority
established by section/oMr;
" Board " means the Board of the Authority constituted under
section seven;
" broadcasting " means the distribution of television or radio, by
means of terrestrial or satellite

Interpretation

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