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Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation Act (No. 37 of 1966) - Sect 44

Power of Minister to issue licences for the establishment and maintenance of private broadcasting stations

44.
(1) The Minister may, if he considers it necessary so to do and after consultation with the Corporation, issue to any person a licence for the establishment and maintenance of any private broadcasting station in any area in Ceylon.
(2) Before the issue of a licence under subsection (1), the Corporation shall, by notice published in the Gazette and in one or more newspapers circulating in Ceylon, call for applications from persons for the issue of a licence. Every such notice shall specify the class or type of private broadcasting station which is required to be established and such other matters as the Corporation thinks fit.
(3) No licence shall be issued to any person under this section except after inquiry into his application.
(4) Regulations may be made by the Minister in respect of all or any of the following matters: -
(a) the procedure to be followed in respect of applications to be made, and the hearing of inquiries into applications, for the issue of licences under this section;
(b) the control and supervision by the Corporation of programmes broadcast from private broadcasting stations;
(c) the furnishing or disclosure by any body of persons applying for a licence under this section of information relating to such body and of its members;
(d) the prohibition, regulation or control of the ownership of private broadcasting stations by prescribed persons or classes of persons;
(e) the regulation or control of the transfer of shares in companies which hold licences for private broadcasting stations, and the transfer of interests on such stations;
(f) the form of application for a licence under this section and the form of such licence; and
(g) the fee to be charged for such licences.

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