Section 8. Duties of the Corporation Section 8(1)(a) provide independent and impartial broadcasting services of information, education and entertainment, in English and Kiswahili and in such other languages as the Corporation may decide; Section 8(1)(b) provide, if the Cabinet Secretary so requires, an external broadcasting service for reception in countries outside Kenya and may for that purpose, subject to the acquisition of any requisite licence, concessions, rights or privileges, construct or acquire and establish, install, equip and use radio communication stations in countries or places outside Kenya or in space; Section 8(1)(c) control and operate such plant, property, installations and services as are, or may be, acquired by the Corporation under this Act; Section 8(1)(d) advise the Government on all matters relating to the broadcasting services and to matters appertaining to the Corporation generally; Section 8(1)(e) appoint and enter into agreements with such contractors and artistes as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act; Section 8(1)(f) conduct the broadcasting services with impartial attention to the interests and susceptibilities of the different communities in Kenya; Section 8(1)(g) ensure the observation of standards of broadcasting and commercial advertising; Section 8(1)(h) provide facilities for commercial advertising and for the production of commercial programmes at such fee or levy as the Corporation may determine; Section 8(1)(i) include in its sound and television programmes a daily service of news, which shall be broadcast in English and Kiswahili and such other languages as the Corporation may decide at such times as the Corporation may determine; Section 8(1)(j) keep a fair balance in all respects in the allocation of broadcasting hours as between different political viewpoints; Section 8(1)(k) in consultation with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, during the campaign period preceding any presidential, parliamentary or local government election, allocate free air time to registered political parties participating in the election to expound their policies. Section 8(1A) In subsection (1)(j), the expression "campaign period" means the period between the initiation of an election under the provisions of the relevant law pertaining to the election and the eve of the polling day. Section 8(2)(a) to produce, manufacture, purchase or otherwise acquire, and sell or otherwise dispose of, films, gramophone and other mechanical records, tapes, wires, perforated rolls or other contrivances by means of which any words, visual images or ideas may be mechanically or electronically produced, reproduced, represented or conveyed and materials and apparatus for use in connection with the broadcasting services; Section 8(2)(b) to provide to and receive from other persons material to be broadcast; Section 8(2)(c) to organize, provide and subsidize public entertainment for broadcast or for any connected purpose; Section 8(2)(d) to collect news and information in or from any part of the world and in any manner that may be thought fit and to establish and subscribe to news agencies; Section 8(2)(e) to establish offices and agencies in Kenya and elsewhere; Section 8(2)(f) to acquire by registration, purchase or otherwise copyrights in any matter and any trade-marks and trade names and sell copyright or use, exercise, develop and grant licences in furtherance of the powers, duties and functions of the Corporation; Section 8(2)(g) to complete, publish, print and distribute, with or without charge, matter that may be conducive to the performance of any of the duties of the Corporation, or to enter into contract with any person for that purpose; Section 8(2)(h) to do anything for the purpose of advancing the skill of persons employed or to be employed by the Corporation, or the efficiency of the equipment of the Corporation or the manner in which the equipment is operated, including the provision by the Corporation, and the assistance of the provision by others, of facilities for training, education and research; Section 8(2)(i) to accept for broadcasting, with or without charge, advertisements and announcements which do not conflict with the general policy of the Corporation; Section 8(2)(j) to make available to broadcasting organizations the use of its sound and television studios upon such terms as the Corporation may determine for the purpose of preparing programmes for broadcasting; Section 8(2)(k) to carry on or operate such services, including wired distribution services, as are conducive to the exercise of its duties; Section 8(2)(l) to apply for and obtain, purchase or otherwise acquire and turn to account in any fitting manner any letters patent or patent rights or any interest in letters patent, patent rights, brevets d’invention , licences, concessions and the like conferring any right to use secret or other information concerning any invention useful to the purposes and functions of the Corporation; Section 8(2)(m) to establish and support or aid in the establishment or support of associations, institutions, funds, trusts and amenities for the benefit of employees or former employees of the Corporation or their dependants or relatives, and to grant pensions and allowances, to make payments towards insurances and to subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects or for any exhibition or for any public, general or useful project; Section 8(2)(n) with the approval of the Cabinet Secretary, to establish companies whose objects include any of the Corporation’s powers, functions or duties whose business is capable of being carried on in such a way as to facilitate or advance those powers, functions or duties, and to purchase or otherwise acquire stocks, shares or securities of, and subsidize and assist, the companies; Section 8(2)(o) subject to section 39 , to borrow or raise or secure the payment of money in Kenya or elsewhere.
