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36 of 1995
The Independent Broadcasting Authority Amendment Act 36 of 1995 intends:
- to amend the Independent Broadcasting Authority Act, 1993 [repealed in 2006], so as
- to replace a definition;
- to further regulate the constitution of certain committees; to dispense with the requirement that the Authority may only issue broadcasting licences after three different inquiries have been held;
- to empower the Authority to require persons to make statements,
- to answer questions and to produce documents or objects, and
- to prescribe certain procedure at certain inquiries and hearings;
- to provide that the powers which formerly vested in the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and the Postmaster General in respect of the broadcasting services frequency bands vest in the Authority;
- to provide that the Broadcasting Technical Committee shall perform its functions subject to the directions of the Council;
- to empower the Authority to issue broadcasting licences without the frequency plan having been finalised;
- to further regulate the rights of persons lawfully engaged in broadcasting signal distribution;
- to impose a limitation on the foreign control of broadcasting signal distribution licensees;
- to amend the text;
- to provide for the confidentiality of certain information furnished by certain applicants;
- to remove a limitation on the Authority's right to information;
- to empower the Authority to amend the terms, conditions and obligations of existing broadcasting licenses;
- to empower the Broadcasting Monitoring and Complaints Committee to hear complaints behind closed doors;
- to impose penalties on certain conduct;
- to extend the power of the Council to make regulations; and
- to regulate anew the commencement of the said Act; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
21 October 1995 (Gazette 16767 of 20 October 1995)
