The Electronic and Postal Communications (Radio and Television Broadcasting Content) Regulations, 2024

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Jurisdiction: Tanzania
Instrument: Regulation
Citation: The Electronic and Postal Communications (Radio and Television Broadcasting Content) Regulations, 2024
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Language: en
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This section gives the citation name for these Regulations and states that they are to be read together with the 2018 Principal Regulations. This provision adds definitions for “sexual acts” and “sexual content” to regulation 3. A holder of landing rights must not carry or broadcast a channel with local content unless the Authority has granted a license. This provision amends regulation 14, replacing its marginal note with “Family Viewing or Listening programme” and adding Regulation 14A. This provision amends the principal Regulations by inserting a new regulation after regulation 14.

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AI-assisted research summary: This section gives the citation name for these Regulations and states that they are to be read together with the 2018 Principal Regulations.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Electronic and Postal Communications (Radio and Television (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 and shall be read as one with the Electronic and Postal Communications (Radio and Television Broadcasting Content) Regulations, 2018 hereinafter referred to as the “Principal Regulations”. Content)
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision adds definitions for “sexual acts” and “sexual content” to regulation 3.

2. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 3 by adding new definitions in its appropriate alphabetical order as follows: ““Sexual acts” means any physical activity that involves touching someone else's private parts, or demonstrating any sexual signals either by using sex in toys or physical conduct or action connection to breasts, vagina, penis, or anus and this can include sexual intercourse or any other conduct to that may not necessarily intercourse; lead “Sexual content” means any content which contain sexual acts.” 2 Electronic and Postal Communications (Radio and Television Broadcasting Content) (Amendment) Regulations GN. No.13 (Contd) Amendment of regulation 8
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AI-assisted research summary: A holder of landing rights must not carry or broadcast a channel with local content unless the Authority has granted a license.

3. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 8 by adding immediately after sub-regulation 2 the following new sub regulation: “(3) A holder of landing rights shall not carry and broadcast channel that contains local content which does not have license granted by the Authority” Amendment of regulation 14
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends regulation 14, replacing its marginal note with “Family Viewing or Listening programme” and adding Regulation 14A.

4. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 14 by deleting marginal note and substituting it with the following: “Family Viewing or Listening programme” Addition of Regulation 14A
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends the principal Regulations by inserting a new regulation after regulation 14.

5. The principal Regulations are amended by adding immediately after regulation 14 the following new regulation: “Watershed Period for adults
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AI-assisted research summary: A content services licensee may broadcast material suitable during the watershed period.

14A.-(1) A content services licensee may broadcast material suitable during watershed period. (2) sub (1), presentation of regulation programs shall adhere to national value, traditions and culture.” Subject to Amendment of regulation 17
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends the principal Regulations by replacing regulation 17.

6. The principal Regulations are amended by deleting regulation 17 and substituting it with the following: 3 Electronic and Postal Communications (Radio and Television Broadcasting Content) (Amendment) Regulations GN. No.13 (Contd) “Expression of personal views
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AI-assisted research summary: The presenter must not express personal opinions during the programme presentation.

17.-(1) The presenter shall not be allowed to express personal opinion during the programme presentation. to (2) sub- Subject regulation (1), the licensee may permit guest or analyst who is to qualified topic under the discussion to express personal views during the programme, Provided that, the audience shall be informed in advance and be given an opportunity to respond to the views.” Addition of Regulation 17A
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AI-assisted research summary: This section amends the principal Regulations by inserting a new regulation after regulation 17, titled “Exercising great care.”

7. The principal Regulations are amended by adding immediately after regulation 17 the following new regulation: “Exercising great care
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AI-assisted research summary: Content service providers must not broadcast programmes that promote suicide methods, explosives, drug misuse, disorder, prostitution, or other immoral activities, and must exercise great care when reporting certain traumatic or violent incidents.

17A.-(1) A content services broadcant not shall provider programmes that- (a) give information on suicide methods, making of explosives and illicit use of drugs; (b) give undue prominence in news and current or affairs, entertainment programme to owners of broadcasting factual 4 Electronic and Postal Communications (Radio and Television Broadcasting Content) (Amendment) Regulations GN. No.13 (Contd) stations; (c) are likely to promote civil or public disorder; and a (1), (d) are likely to promote prostitution and other immoral activities.” (2) Without prejudice to sub-regulation content service provider shall exercise great care when reporting incidents of torture, ill treatment of people or animals, close ups of dead or mutilated in extreme pain or on the point of death or violent treatment of children; bodies, people Amendment of regulation 19
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends regulation 19(k) by replacing the words “be guided” with “as provided”.

8. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 19(k) by deleting the words “be guided” appearing between the words “audience” and “by” and substituting with the words “as provided”. Amendment of Regulation 22
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AI-assisted research summary: This section amends regulation 22(3) and mentions the addition of a new regulation 26A.

9. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 22(3) by deleting the words “current affairs” appearing between the words “and” and “ensure” and substituting with the words “live event of national interest shall. Addition of Regulation 26A
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends the Principal Regulations by adding a new regulation after regulation 26, titled “Consent to read content of newspaper, book or article”.

10. The Principal Regulations are amended by adding immediately after regulation 26 the following new regulation: “Consent to read content of newspaper, book or article
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AI-assisted research summary: A content service provider must not read the content of newspapers, books, or articles when presenting a program unless the owner has given written consent. If intending to use them, only headlines may be read.

26A.-(1) A content Service provider shall not read the content of newspapers, books and articles 5 Electronic and Postal Communications (Radio and Television Broadcasting Content) (Amendment) Regulations GN. No.13 (Contd) in the cause of presentation of program without written consent of the owner. a (1), (2) Without prejudice to sub-regulation content service provider who intends to the newspapers, book or read articles of the presentation of programs shall read the headlines only and not otherwise.” course in Amendment of Regulations 28
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends regulation 28 of the principal Regulations by deleting it and replacing it with new text about observance of national values, traditions, and culture.

11. The principal Regulations are amended by deleting regulation 28 and substituting it with the following: “Observance of national value, traditions and culture
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AI-assisted research summary: Content services providers and licensees must consider national values, traditions, and culture when broadcasting sexual content, and licensees must not broadcast explicit sexual acts or nude scenes showing genitals.

28.-(1) A content services provider shall take into account traditions and national values, culture when broadcasting content related to sexual nature. (2) Notwithstanding sub- regulation (1), a content services licensee shall not- (a) present sexual content in discreet and frequent; (b) broadcast or relay any programme that depicts explicit sexual acts; or (c) broadcast nude scenes which show the genitals. (3) Where a content services licensee program broadcasts involving sexual content, it shall be presented in a manner that observes national value, traditions and 6 Electronic and Postal Communications (Radio and Television Broadcasting Content) (Amendment) Regulations GN. No.13 (Contd) Amendment of Regulations 33 Amendment of Regulations 38 Amendment of Regulations 39 culture.”
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends regulation 33 by deleting sub-regulation 3.

12. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 33 by deleting sub-regulation 3.
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AI-assisted research summary: This provision amends regulation 38 by deleting paragraph (c) in sub-regulation (7) and renumbering paragraphs (d) and (e).

13. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 38 by: (a) deleting paragraph (c) appearing in sub- regulation (7); and (b) renumbering paragraph (d) and (e) as paragraph (c) and (d) accordingly.
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AI-assisted research summary: A content services licensee must publish its programme schedule on its broadcasting channel or online platforms at least 14 days before it applies.

14. The principal Regulations are amended in (1) and regulation 39 by deleting sub-regulation substituting it with the following: “(1) A content services licensee shall publish programme schedule in its broadcasting channel or online platforms at least 14 days in advance.” Dodoma, 2nd December, 2023 NAPE M. NNAUYE Minister of Information, Communications and Information Technology 7

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