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Regulations, 2012
Statutory Text (4 Articles)
L. N. 88 of 2012
BROADCASTING ACT
(CAP. 350)
Requirements as to Standards and Practice Applicable to News
Bulletins and Current Affairs Programmes (Amendment)
Regulations, 2012
IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 20(3) of
the Broadcasting Act, the Broadcasting Authority, has made the
following regulations:-
(1) The title of these regulations is the Requirements Citation and entry into
as to Standards and Practice Applicable to News Bulletins and force. S.L. 350.14.
Current Affairs Programmes (Amendment) Regulations, 2012 and
shall be read and construed as one with the Requirements as to
Standards and Practice Applicable to News Bulletins and Current
Affairs Programmes, hereinafter referred to as “the principal
requirements”.
(2)
These regulations shall come into force on 16th
March 2012.
The following shall be added after paragraph 8.15.2. of
the principal requirements
“8.15.3. An application for exercise of the right of
reply may be rejected if such a reply is not justified according
to the conditions laid down in paragraph 8.15.4, would
involve a punishable act, would render the broadcaster liable
to civil-law proceedings or would transgress standards of
public decency.
15.4. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other
law, any natural or legal person, regardless of nationality,
whose legitimate interests, in particular reputation and good
name, have been damaged by an assertion of incorrect facts in
a television or radio programme may exercise a right of reply.
The Authority shall ensure that the actual exercise of the right
of reply is not hindered by the imposition of unreasonable
terms or conditions. The reply shall be transmitted within a
reasonable time subsequent to the request being substantiated
and at a time and in a manner appropriate to the broadcast to
which the request refers.”
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