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National and Provincial Party Elections Broadcasts and Political Advertisements Amendment Regulations, 2024

Reasons Document - February 2024

Analysis

3.5 Regulation 8: General

 

3.5.1 Rosestad FM states that the Authority amended Regulations 8(1)(b) to replace 30 days with 20 calendar days for a broadcaster to notify the Authority of their intention to carry PEBs and/or PAs. It proposes that the Authority should communicate the mechanism that broadcasters should use to inform the Authority on their intention to broadcast PA and/or PEB’s.41

 

The Authority’s decision

 

3.5.2 The broadcasting service licensees that intends to broadcast PEBs and/or PA should inform the Authority by writing an email to [email protected]. Broadcasting service licensees intending to broadcast the PEBS and/or PAs should inform the Authority after the publication of the final Regulations in the government gazette.

 

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41 Rosestad FM submission on the Draft Amendment to the National and Provincial Party Elections Broadcasts and Political Advertisements Regulations, 2014, 17 November 2023, page 1.