Broadcasting Authority may require licensee to distribute
certain
documents
TELEVISION (AMENDMENT)
Ord. No. 72/88
A447
the Broadcasting Authority thinks fit either to keep such a register or to enter therein such particulars), nor be disclosed either by the person by whom they are received or by any employee of that person. (b) Paragraph (a) shall not be construed as prohibiting
the disclosure of information—
(i) to the Broadcasting Authority;
(ii) to the Secretary for Administrative Services and Information; or
(iii) with a view to the institution of or otherwise for the purpose of or in connection with legal proceedings.
17F. (1) (a) Subject to subsection (3), for the purpose of enabling section 17C(1) to be complied with, the Broadcasting Authority may, at any time within the period of 3 months beginning on the commence- ment of this section, by a direction in writing, require a licensee, within such period as is specified in the direction (being a period of not less than 90 days beginning on the date of the direction), to—
(i) distribute, within such period as is so specified (being a period of not less than 21 days beginning on such date), to each person whose name stood enter- ed in the licensee's register immediately before such commencement a copy of a document the form and contents of which shall be specified in the direction; and
(ii) as regards the direction, comply with the following requirements of this section.
(b) Without limiting the generality of paragraph (a), a document to which a direction under this section relates shall have attached thereto a declaration and contain instructions the form and terms of which shall be specified in the direction.
(2) In case the Broadcasting Authority gives a direction under this section, the following provisions shall apply-
(a) the licensee to whom the direction is given shall
comply with the direction;
(b) each of the persons to whom the document specified in the direction is distributed shall complete the declaration attached to the document and return it to such licensee so that it is received by him not later than the date specified in that regard in the instruc- tions in the document.
(3) Where two or more names are recorded in an entry in a licensee's register, the requirements of a direction under this section, in so far as they require the licensee concerned to distribute a document, shall be regarded as having been complied with as regards those names if such licensee sends a document specified in the direction to one of the persons whose names are so recorded.