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Broadcasting Act, 1999 (Act No. 4 of 1999)

Regulations

Regulations regarding Television Licence Fees

Denatured Apparatus (Regs 26-29)

 

26. A user of a television set which is alleged to be incapable of receiving transmissions broadcast in the course of a television broadcasting service, must give the Corporation written notice to that effect.

 

27. Upon receipt of a written notice contemplated in paragraph 26, the Corporation must appoint an authorised agent to determine whether the television set is capable of receiving transmissions broadcast in the course of a television broadcasting service, whereupon an inspection fee as provided for in Annexure B is payable by the user who notified the Corporation.

 

28. A person who uses a denatured apparatus must, three months prior to the expiry of his or her licensing year, give written notice to the Corporation that the apparatus has not been modified so as to render it capable of receiving transmissions broadcast in the course of a television broadcasting service.

 

29. An authorised agent may inspect denatured apparatus in order to determine whether the apparatus has subsequently been modified so as to render it capable of receiving transmissions broadcast in the course of a television broadcasting service. If after such inspection an authorised agent finds that the denatured apparatus has been modified so as to render it capable of receiving transmissions broadcast in the course of a television broadcasting service, the user of the denatured apparatus is, in addition to any television1 licence fees and penalties liable to pay an inspection fee as provided for in Annexure B.