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Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005)

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Promotion of Diversity and Competition on Digital Terrestrial Television Regulations, 2014

7. General obligations and provisions

 

(1) A television broadcasting service licensee which is assigned capacity on Multiplex 1 or Multiplex 3 must ensure that an Electronic Programme Guide, being a schedule of forthcoming available programmes broadcast by the licensee at defined intervals, and Electronic Programme Information, being information in relation to the nature and content of programming, are made available to end-users in relation to the programming broadcast on a particular digital channel.

 

(2) For the purpose of these Regulations it is deemed that an electronic communications network service licensee which is appointed by a television broadcasting service licensee to provide signal distribution services provides those services as an agent of the television broadcasting service licensee and therefore will be deemed to be in compliance with section 31 of the Act.

 

(3) Until such time as they are repealed or amended, each of the television broadcasting service licensees must comply with the ICASA South African Television Content Regulations published under General Notice 154 in Government Gazette 28454 of 31 January 2006, as at the date of the commencement of these Regulations, for each channel broadcast by it, provided that those channels which by the nature of the programming provided, including channels which consist exclusively of sport or education programming, cannot comply with the ICASA South African Television Content Regulations may be exempted by the Authority from this requirement, upon written application by the television broadcasting service licensee.

 

(4) Two (2) representatives from each television broadcasting service licensee which is assigned capacity on Multiplex 1 or Multiplex 3, as the case may be, and each electronic communications network service licensee which is appointed by a television and broadcasting service to provide signal distribution services, may participate in the activities of the Joint Spectrum Advisory Group (JSAG), established in terms of the Digital Migration Regulations.

 

(5) One (1) representative from each television broadcasting service licensee which is assigned capacity on Multiplex 1 or Multiplex 3, as the case may be, may participate in the activities of the Digital Television Content Advisory Group (DTCAG), established in terms of the Digital Migration Regulations.