systems; to provide for progr amme standards; to regulate and licens e signal carriers; to encourage and develop the creative arts through broadcasting content standards; to create a sense of national identity through broadcasting services; to create a Broadcasting Fund to help finance local br oadcasting and for related purposes; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing. ENACTED by the President and the Parliament of Zimbabwe. [Date of commencement: 4th April, 2001 – but see section 47(4).] PART I PRELIMINARY 1 Title This Act may be cited as the Broadcasting Services Act [Chapter 12:06]. 2 Interpretation (1) In this Act— “advertising agent” means a person whose sole or principal business is the making o r placing of commercial advertisements on behalf of others; “apparatus”, in relation to broadcasting apparatus, mean s apparatus constructed o r adapted for use in transmitting or receiving broadcasting services; “applicant” means an applicant for a licence; “Authority” means the Broadcasting Author ity of Zimbabwe es tablished by section three; “Board” means the Broadcasting Authorit y of Zimbabwe Board established by section four; “broadcasting licence” means a broadcasting licence issued in terms of section ten; “broadcasting service” means any servic e which delivers te levision or radio programmes to persons having equipment appropriate for receiving that service, whether the delivery is effected by mean s of or uses the radiofrequency spectrum, cable, optical fibre, satellite or any other means or a comb ination of those means, and includes any of the services re ferred to in paragraphs (a) to ( j) of subsection (2) o f section seven; “broadcasting service bands” means— (a) that part of the electromagnetic radiof requency spectrum which is allocated to the Authority by the Post al and Telecommunicat ions Authority fo r planning and allocation for broadcasting purposes in terms of this Act; and (b) designated to be such by the Minister by notice in the Gazette; “broadcasting station” means a radio or te levision transmitting station used for the purposes of carrying on a broadcasting service; “broadcasting system” includes a signal carrier or radio tr ansmitting station used fo r the purpose of transmitting a broadcasting service; “cable broadcasting servi ce” means a broadcasting service which transmits programmes by means of a telecommunication serv ice, other than a radiocommunication service, as defined in the Postal and Telecommunications Act [Chapter 12:05], for reception at two or mo re places, whether simultaneously or at different times; “commercial broadcasting s ervice” means a free-to-air (radio or television) broadcasting service operated for profit or as part of a prof it-making enterprise which— (a) is intended or appears to be intended to a ppeal to the general public; and (b) is capable of being received by commonly available equipment; and (c) otherwise complies with a ny classification criteria that may be applicable to such a service in terms of subsection (2); “commercial radio broadcasting s ervice” means a commercial audio- broadcasting service; “commercial television broadcasting s ervice” means an audio- visual commercial broadcasting service;