Determination of Complaints, 2005

L.N. 83 of 2005

BROADCASTING ACT

(CAP. 350)

Amendment to the Code for the Investigation and

Determination of Complaints, 2005

IN exercise of the powers conferred by subarticle (2) of article

21A of the Broadcasting Act, the Broadcasting Authority has made

the following amendment to the Code for the Investigation and

Determination of Complaints>–

The title of this amendment is the Amendment to the Code

for the Investigation and Determination of Complaints, 2005 and it

shall be read and construed as one with the Code for the Investigation

and Determination of Complaints, hereinafter referred to as “the

Code”.

For article 7 of the Code there shall be substituted the

following>–

“7. (1) If the complainant is not satified with the

broadcaster’s reply or remedy given, he may request the

Authority to hear and decide upon his complaint.

(2)

The complainant may file his complaint with the

Authority>

(a) within a period of fifteen days from the receipt

of the broadcaster’s reply or from the granting of a remedy

thereto< or

(b) within eighteen days from the date of his

complaint to the broadcaster if the latter does not reply or

does not provide an adequate remedy to the complaint.

(3) If the complainant does not request the Authority

to appoint his complaint in terms of sub-article (1) hereof, the

Authority shall declare the complaint abandoned and it shall

not take further cognizance of that complaint.”.

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