Independent Broadcasting
Authority

[No. 17 of 2002

31. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty the
Authority may cancel or refuse to renew a licence if satisfied that the
broadcasting station or the receiver or the apparatus or equipment
used in connection with the broadcasting service or the diffusion
service—
(a) prevents the erection or installation of plant, post apparatus
or equipment for Zambia Postal Services Corporation and
Zambia Telecommunications Company Limited;

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or refusal to
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interference
with postal
and
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apparatus

(b) injures or interferes with the working of a radio station or the
carrying on of a radio-communication telephone or
telegraph services established by the Z a m b i a
Telecommunications Company Limited;
(c) is likely to injure or interfere with apparatus, equipment,
circuits, instruments, wires and the like installed, created
or operated by the Zambia Telecommunications Company
Limited.
(2) The provisions of subsection (6) of section thirty shall apply
with necessary modification to a cancellation or refusal to renew a
licence under this section.
32. (1) Where there is in force a proclamation of a state of public
emergency or threatened public emergency under the Constitution the
President may make an order authorising an officer or an authority,
in the public interest, to —
(a) take over all broadcasting stations or any particular
broadcasting station in Zambia; and
(b) control and direct all broadcasting services from the
broadcasting stations or broadcasting station to which the
provisions of paragraph (a) relate for so long as the
President considers it expedient;
and in so doing may require the exclusive services of the persons
employed in working, maintaining or carrying on the same.
(2) When an officer or an authority is authorised to take over a
broadcasting station in terms of subsection (1), the person owning or
controlling the broadcasting station shall give up possession to the
President or the officer or authority, and the person employed in
working or maintaining the broadcasting station or in carrying on a
broadcasting service from the broadcasting station shall, if the President
in terms of that subsection requires their exclusive services, diligently
and faithfully obey, during the period the broadcasting station is in

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