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61 of 1982
The Broadcasting Amendment Act 61 of 1982 intends:
- to amend the Broadcasting Act, 1976 [repealed in June 1999], so as
- to delete certain definitions and to redefine certain expressions;
- to increase the membership of the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation;
- to further regulate the status and functions of the director-general of the Corporation, and to provide that the chairman of the Board may also be appointed as such a director-general;
- to abolish the Black Programme Advisory Board and the Television Programme Advisory Board, and to make new provision regarding certain advisory boards;
- to further regulate the manner of payment of certain fees in respect of certain licences by the Corporation;
- to extend the general powers of the Corporation;
- to provide for the rendering of certain aid to pensioners of the Corporation;
- to make new provision regarding the borrowing powers of the Corporation; to abolish listeners' licences;
- to provide for the issuing of certain television licences to the owners or managers of certain institutions;
- to further regulate the issuing of certain other television licences;
- to further regulate the payment of fines in respect of any failure to take out television licences;
- to do away with the obligation of the State to pay certain amounts to the Corporation for the use of sound radio sets;
- to further regulate the powers of the Corporation to make regulations;
- to provide for the establishment of a consolidated income fund to replace certain existing funds of the Corporation;
- to further regulate the penalties in respect of contraventions of the provisions of the said Act; and
- to delete certain obsolete provisions;
- to amend the Radio Act, 1952 [repealed in Novmeber 1996], and the Post Office Act, 1958; and
- to provide for incidental matters.
Commencement
14 May 1982 (Gazette 8200 of 14 May 1982)
