Section 177:
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
177. Broadcasting – Monopoly – Duties of Telecommunications Authority—
The plaintiff, which had been informed by the then Telecommunications Authority, that its application for a broadcasting licence would not be granted
until new legislation was enacted, claimed that its constitutional rights were
being infringed.
HELD (i) section 12 of the Constitution entitles any person to impart information through broadcasting subject to some measure of control by the
State; (ii) the monopoly of the MBC in matters of broadcasting is repugnant
to the Constitution; (iii) the Authority is empowered to grant a licence. London Satellite Systems Ltd v State (1997).