[Rev. 2012] Kenya Broadcasting Corporation CAP. 221 CHAPTER 221 KENYA BROADCASTING CORPORATION ACT [Date of assent: 19th December, 1988.] [Date of commencement: 1st February, 1989.] An Act of Parliament to establish the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation to assume the Government functions of producing and broadcasting programmes or parts of programmes by sound or television; to provide for the management, powers, functions and duties of the Corporation; and for connected purposes [Act No. 15 of 1988, L.N. 23/1989, Act No. 7 of 1990, Act No. 10 of 1997, Act No. 15 of 2003, Act No. 1 of 2009.] PART I – PRELIMINARY 1. Short title and application (1) This Act may be cited as the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Act. (2) Deleted by Act No. 1 of 2009, s. 36. [Act No. 1 of 2009, s. 36.] 2. Interpretation In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “artiste” means a person, not being an employee of the Corporation, who is invited or engaged to participate in the production and broadcasting of programmes or parts of programmes by sound or television for the Corporation; “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation established by section 4; “broadcasting” means radio communication, whether by sound or vision, for reception by members of the public; “chairman” means the chairman of the Board appointed under section 4(1)(a); “Corporation” means the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation established by section 3; “installations” includes aerials, masts, overhead wires or cables, underground cables and fixed apparatus for radio communication, telephone, electrical generation and wired distribution services; “managing director” means the person appointed to that office under section 5(1); “radio communication” means emitting or receiving, over paths which are not provided by any material substance constructed or arranged for that purpose, of electro-magnetic energy of a frequency not exceeding three million megahertz being energy which either— (a) serves for the conveying of the message, sound or visual images (whether the messages, sound or visual images are actually K3 - 5 [Issue 1]