CENSORSHIP AND ENTERTAINMENTS CONTROL ACT (updated 1st May 2004) “Minister” means the Minister of Home Affairs or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act; “picture” includes— (a) any drawing, symbol, illustration, painting, wood-cut or similar representation; (b) any print, photograph, engraving or lithograph; (c) any object in or on which there is a picture; (d) any exhibition for the purpose of advertising; but does not include a film; “place” includes any vehicle, vessel or aircraft; “play”, in relation to a record, means to render audible the sounds recorded thereon and includes the broadcasting thereof through the medium of radio or television; “prohibited” in relation to— (a) any film, means declared to be prohibited in terms of section twelve; (b) any publication, picture, statue or record, means declared to be prohibited in terms of subsection (2) of section fourteen; “public”, in relation to the exhibition of any film, publication, picture or statue, the playing of any record or the giving of any entertainment, means the exhibition of such film, publication, picture or statue, the playing of such record or the giving of such entertainment, as the case may be— (a) in public; or (b) at any place to which admission is obtained— (i) by membership of any association of persons; or (ii) for any consideration, direct or indirect; or (iii) by virtue of any contribution towards any fund; and, without derogation from section 13 of the Interpretation Act [Chapter 1:01], “public entertainment” means an entertainment so given or intended to be so given; “publication” includes— (a) any newspaper, book, periodical, pamphlet, poster, playing card, calendar or other printed matter; (b) any writing or typescript which has in any manner been duplicated or exhibited or made available to the public or any section of the public; “record” means any contrivance or device in or on which sound has been recorded for reproduction; [Chapter 10:04] “recorded video or film material” means any material, whether magnetic tape, photographic film or other material, upon which any film is recorded; “statue” includes any figure, cast, carving, moulding or model; “theatre” means any— (a) building, tent or other erection; or (b) drive-in theatre; where a public entertainment is given or a film is exhibited to which the public or any section of the public has access or is permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise and whether or not the right of admission thereto is reserved; “undesirable” means undesirable within the meaning of subsection (2) of section thirteen. PART II ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNCTIONS OF BOARD OF CENSORS 3 Board of Censors (1) The Minister shall appoint a board, to be known as the Board of Censors, to perform the functions entrusted to it under this Act. (2) The Board shall consist of not less than nine members who shall be appointed for a period of not more than three years. (3) The Minister may appoint an alternate member to any member of the Board. (4) A retiring member and an alternate member shall be eligible for re-appointment as a member or as an alternate member. (5) The Minister shall designate one member as chairman of the Board and one member as vicechairman of the Board. (6) If the chairman is prevented by illness, absence from Zimbabwe or other cause from exercising his functions on the Board or committees of the Board, the vice-chairman shall exercise the functions and powers and perform the duties of the chairman. (7) If at a meeting of the Board the chairman and vice-chairman are absent, the members present may elect one of their number to preside. (8) The quorum of the Board shall be as prescribed. (9) A decision of the majority of the members present at a meeting of the Board shall be the decision of the Board: Provided that in the event of an equality of votes the person presiding at the meeting shall have a casting vote in addition to his deliberative vote. 736