6. Programme Code.—(1) No programme should be carried in the cable service which— (a) offends against good taste or decency; (b) contains criticism of friendly countries; (c) contains attack on religions or communities or visuals or words contemptuous of religious groups or which promote communal attitudes; (d) contains anything obscene, defamatory, deliberate, false and suggestive innuendos and half truths; (e) is likely to encourage or incite violence or contains anything against maintenance of law and order or which promote anti-national attitudes. (f) contains anything amounting to contempt of court. (g) contains aspersions against the integrity of the President and Judiciary; (h) contains anything affecting the integrity of the Nation; (i) criticises, maligns or slanders any individual in person or certain groups, segments of social, public and moral life of the country; (j) encourages supersition or blind belief; (k) denigrates women through the depiction in any manner of the figure of a woman, her form or body or any part thereof in such a way as to have the effect of being indecent, or derogatory to women, or is likely to deprave, corrupt or injure the public morality or morals; (l) denigrates children; (m) contains visuals or words which reflect a slandering, ironical and snobbish attitude in the portrayal of certain ethnic, linguistic and regional groups; (n) contravenes the provisions of the Cinematograph Act, 1952 (37 of 1952). (o) is not suitable for unrestricted public exhibition.
(2) The cable operator should strive to carry programmes in his cable service which project women in a positive, leader ship role of sobriety, moral and character building qualities.
(3) No cable operator shall carry or include in his cable service any programme in respect of which copyright subsists under the Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957) unless he has been granted a licence by owners of copyright under that Act in respect of such programme. (4) Care should be taken to ensure that programmes meant for children do not contain any bad language or explicit scenes of violence.
(5) Programmes unsuitable for children must not be carried in the cable service at times when the largest number of children are viewing.
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