[Rev. 2012] Kenya Broadcasting Corporation CAP. 221 (h) to do anything for the purpose of advancing the skill of persons employed or to be employed by the Corporation, or the efficiency of the equipment of the Corporation or the manner in which the equipment is operated, including the provision by the Corporation, and the assistance of the provision by others, of facilities for training, education and research; (i) to accept for broadcasting, with or without charge, advertisements and announcements which do not conflict with the general policy of the Corporation; (j) to make available to broadcasting organizations the use of its sound and television studios upon such terms as the Corporation may determine for the purpose of preparing programmes for broadcasting; (k) to carry on or operate such services, including wired distribution services, as are conducive to the exercise of its duties; (l) to apply for and obtain, purchase or otherwise acquire and turn to account in any fitting manner any letters patent or patent rights or any interest in letters patent, patent rights, brevets d’invention, licences, concessions and the like conferring any right to use secret or other information concerning any invention useful to the purposes and functions of the Corporation; (m) to establish and support or aid in the establishment or support of associations, institutions, funds, trusts and amenities for the benefit of employees or former employees of the Corporation or their dependants or relatives, and to grant pensions and allowances, to make payments towards insurances and to subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects or for any exhibition or for any public, general or useful project; (n) with the approval of the Minister, to establish companies whose objects include any of the Corporation’s powers, functions or duties whose business is capable of being carried on in such a way as to facilitate or advance those powers, functions or duties, and to purchase or otherwise acquire stocks, shares or securities of, and subsidize and assist, the companies; (o) subject to section 39, to borrow or raise or secure the payment of money in Kenya or elsewhere. [Act No. 10 of 1997, Sch.] 9. Assumption of the broadcasting services of the Government (1) The Corporation shall assume the broadcasting services of the Government operating under the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (Nationalization) Act , 1967 (Cap. 221) (now repealed). (2) Deleted by Act No. 7 of 1990, Sch. (3) Deleted by Act No. 1 of 2009, s. 36. [Act No. 7 of 1990, Sch., Act No. 1 of 2009, s. 36.] K3 - 8 [Issue 1]