(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding $300,000 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (4) In addition to any fine imposed in terms of subsection (3) and without derogation from any of its powers granted under any enactment, a court convicting a person of contravening subsection may declare forfeited to the State any equipment or apparatus used for the purpose of or in connection with the offence. (5) The proviso to subsection (1) and subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6) of section 62 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] shall apply mutatis mutandis in relation to a declaration in terms of subsection (4). (6) Any messages or materials belonging to a news agency and distributed by another mass media service shall state the name of the news agency. 75 Publisher’s imprint Every issue of a periodically printed publication or electronic programme shall contain a publisher’s imprint as prescribed. 76 Deposit copies The mass media service shall send free deposit copies of a periodical to the Commission and the National Archives. 77 Obligatory reports A mass media service shall he obliged to publish, free of charge and in the prescribed manner a decision of a court or the Commission pertaining to its mass media service that has come into effect, if it is a newspaper, on the front page or centre spread, and if it is electronic media, three times during prime time. PART XII JOURNALISTS 78 Rights of a journalist Subject to this Act and any other law, a journalist shall have the right— (a) to enquire, gather, receive and disseminate information; (b) to visit public bodies with the express purpose of carrying out duties as a journalist; (c) to get access to documents and materials as prescribed in this Act; (d) to make recordings with the use of audio-video equipment, photography and cine-photography; (e) to refuse to prepare under his signature reports and materials inconsistent with his convictions; (f) to remove his signature from a report or material whose content was distorted, in his opinion, in the process of editorial preparations or to ban or stipulate in any other way the conditions and manner of using his report; (g) to circulate reports and materials he prepared under his signature, under a pseudonym or without any signature. 79 Accreditation of journalists (1) No journalist shall exercise the rights provided in section 78 in Zimbabwe without being accredited by the Commission. (2) Subject to subsection (4), no journalist shall be accredited who is not a citizen of Zimbabwe, or is not regarded as permanently resident in Zimbabwe by virtue of the Immigration Act [Chapter 4:02]. (3) Any person who wishes to be accredited as a journalist shall make an application to the Commission in the form and manner and accompanied by the fee, if any, prescribed: Provided that a mass media service or news agency may file an application for accreditation on behalf of journalists employed by such mass media service or news agency. (4) A journalist who is not a citizen of Zimbabwe, or is not regarded as permanently resident in Zimbabwe by virtue of the Immigration Act [Chapter 4:02], may be accredited for a limited period. (5) The Commission may accredit an applicant as a journalist and issue a press card to the applicant if it is satisfied that the applicant— (a) has complied with the prescribed formalities; and (b) possesses the prescribed qualifications; and (c) is not disqualified by virtue of subsection (2), or applies for accreditation in terms of subsection (4). (6) Every news agency that operates in Zimbabwe, whether domiciled inside or outside Zimbabwe, shall in respect of its local operations not employ or use the services of any journalist other than an accredited journalist who is a citizen of Zimbabwe, or is regarded as permanently resident in Zimbabwe by virtue of the Immigration Act [Chapter 4:02]: Provided that the news agency may employ or use the services of a journalist referred to in subsection (4) for the duration of that journalist’s accreditation. 80 Abuse of journalistic privilege (1) A journalist shall be deemed to have abused his journalistic privilege and committed an offence if he does the following— (a) falsifies or fabricates information; (b) publishes falsehoods; (c) except where he is a freelance journalist, collects and disseminates information on behalf of a person other than the mass media service that employs him without the permission of his employer; - 18 -