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Rights and immunity of a journalist
27.(1) A journalist shall enjoy the following rights and immunities :(a) his non-subjection to any act, for the purpose of affecting his
performance , chastity or his abidance by the professional
duties thereof;
(b) protection of the sources of his press information;
(c) his non-subjection to accountability, upon his communicating
public information, or expressing his opinion, saving cases of
red-handedness, no journalist shall be arrested with respect to
any charge, as may be connected to the practice of his press
profession, save after notifying President of the Journalists
General Union ,.
(2) Every public servant, or person, or body in whose possession are public
information, relating to the State, and the community may avail such
information to journalists, unless the same have previously been
classified, by law, or by a decision of any competent body, as being
information, which shall not be published.
(3) The Council shall take such appropriate measures , as may guarantee
the rights and immunities of the journalist.
(4) A journalist shall not be dismissed, save after notifying the Journalists
General Union , of the justifications of the dismissal. Where the period of
one month elapses, and the Union, fails during the same, to conciliate,
between the newspaper and the journalist, both parties shall be
governed by the provisions of the Labour Act in force.
Duties of the journalist
28.(1) Besides any other obligations, in any other law, a journalist shall abide
by the following :-