Article 10. Registration of a Mass Medium

1. Mass Media distributed on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan regardless the form of ownership shall be subject to mandatory registration with an authorized agency on the matters of mass information of the Republic of Kazakhstan (further referred to as Authorized Agency).

2. In order to get registered, an owner of a mass medium or his/her designee shall file an application that meets requirements set in the Article 11 of the present Law.

3. Application for registration of a mass medium shall be subject to reviewing within 15 days from the date it was filed. In the upshot of reviewing the application the Authorized Agency shall give the owner a registration certificate or a denial on the following grounds:

1) if an Authorized Agency has earlier issued a registration certificate to the mass medium with the same name and distribution on the same territory;

2) if the contents of application do not meet the requirements of Article 11 hereof;

3) if the application is filed before one year has expired since the date when a court decision to suspend issue (broadcasting) of a mass medium.

3-1. Owner of periodical printed edition reserves a right to begin production output of a mass medium within six months from the day of receipt of certificate of registration.

Owner of television, radio-, video-, newsreel program, information agency reserves a right to begin production output of a mass medium, dissemination of reports and materials of informational character within one year from the day of receipt of certificate of registration.

In case, production output was not begun during the specified period, certificate of registration by decision of authorized body is nullified.

3-2.  A mass medium, an informational agency is subject to repeated registration in cases of change of an owner or its organizational legal form, denomination, as well as name of a mass medium, change of language of publication or broadcasting, territory of dissemination, main thematic direction.

Repeated registration of a mass medium or informational agency is realized in the same order, as initial registration.

4) Registration of foreign mass media distributed on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall proceed in an order set by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.