[Rev. 2012]
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
CAP. 221
affecting or evidencing title to property shall do everything necessary under the law
to transfer any property vested in the Corporation by this paragraph.
(3) All rights, powers, liabilities and duties whether arising under any written law
or otherwise, vested in, imposed on, or enforceable by or against the Government
for or in respect of the Voice of Kenya shall be transferred to, vested in, imposed
on or enforceable by or against the Corporation.
(4) Any action, suit or legal arbitration proceedings, or any application to any
authority, by or against the Government for or in respect of the Voice of Kenya
shall not abate, be discontinued or be prejudicially affected because of this Act but
may be prosecuted or continued by or against the Corporation, and any judgement
or award obtained by or against the Government for or in respect of the Voice of
Kenya, and not fully satisfied shall be enforceable by or against the Corporation.
(5) In any legal or arbitration proceedings concerning any right or liability
transferred to or vested in the Corporation by this Act, a certificate by the
accounting officer of the Ministry for the time being responsible for matters relating
to Broadcasting, stating that the right or liability has been so transferred or vested
shall be prima facie evidence thereof.
(6) Any reference in any written law, or in any document or any instrument, to
the Government, for or in respect of the Voice of Kenya, shall be read and construed
as a reference to the Corporation established by this Act.
(7) All directions, orders, rules, appointments, requirements, authorizations and
any other things made or done by the Government for or in respect of the Voice of
Kenya, shall be deemed to have been given, made or done by the Corporation.
(8) Unless the Board otherwise directs and subject to Part IV, all persons who
are members of the staff of the Voice of Kenya, immediately before the coming into
operation of this Act, shall be members of staff of the Corporation if they so desire
and shall be deemed to have been appointed under this Act.
55. Repeal of Cap. 221 and Cap. 224 and amendment of Cap. 130
(1) The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (Nationalization) Act (Cap. 221) and
the Broadcast Receiving (Apparatus) Act (Cap. 224) are repealed.
(2) Section 2(1) of the Copyright Act (Cap. 130) is amended by deleting the
definition of “broadcasting authority” and substituting the following—
“broadcasting authority” means the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
established under the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Act (No. 15 of 1988) or
any other broadcaster authorized by or under any written law.
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