Duties and responsibilities to
the Media
Law on the Protection
Of The Rights Of the Child
Article 6 Right
to develop
6.5 The child has
right to freedom of thought, to seek information, It
is prohibited to disseminate any material advertising
crimes, pornography , violence to the child and to involve
them in advertising against their own and their parents
legal guardians and care givers will
Article 13 Duties
and responsibilities of individuals economic entities
and organizations
13.6 to prevent the
operation of production , sale and service harmful for
children’s development and the dissemination of materials
of negative moral impact on children and activities
advocating violence, prostitution ets;
The Law on Anti-Alcoholism
January 28, 2000
Article 9. Promotion
against alcoholism.
9.1. Central and
local government administrative organisations, health
institutions, media, culture and educational institutions
shall have an obligation to promote anti-alcoholism
and educate the public on consequences of alcoholism.
9.2. It shall be
prohibited to advertise sale and consumption of alcoholic
beverages through media.
Article 10. Disseminating
information to the public on alcoholic beverages not
meeting standards.
10.1. It shall be
required to promptly disseminate information on effects
of alcoholic beverages that are proven, as a result
of inspection by authorities, to be harmful for human
lives or health or to be inferior to the standards.
10.2. All press institutions
shall have the duty to accept, without any impediments,
and to deliver to the public the information about effects
of alcoholic beverages not meeting the standards.
The Law on Culture
Approved on April
11, 1996
Article 19. Restrictions
on activities conducted by government and other organisations
and individuals related to cultural issues
3. It shall be prohibited
to conduct cultural activities that promote wars, aggression,
obscenity and that pose a threat to the sovereignty
of Mongolia, national security and culture.
The Law on Measures
Against Effects of Tobacco
Approved on December
27, 1993
Article 6. Prohibition
of advertising of tobacco
It shall be prohibited
to advertise tobacco using the following forms:
1) prints, posters,
movies, television, radio, boards, decorations, free
style and any other direct physical forms;
4) companies that
produce tobacco products or sell exclusively tobacco
shall be prohibited to promote by participating as sponsors.
The Law on Prevention
of Crimes
Approved on December
5, 1997
Article 11. Obligations
of media of crime prevention
11.1. The main purpose
of media shall be to prevent crimes, to inform the public
of their reasons, conditions and effects of crimes and
to warn the public through published or broadcast information
about crimes.
11.2. They shall
promptly publish or broadcast urgent information about
preventing and stopping crimes.
11.3. The organisation
responsible shall pay for publishing or broadcasting
urgent information to media institutions except state-owned
ones.
11.4. It shall be
prohibited to issue or broadcast information that encourages
and promotes violation, murder, obscenity and crimes
and that displays their details.
11.5. It shall be
prohibited to inform through media of people that they
are guilty of crimes when the court has not approved
that.
The Law on Prevention
of HIV/AIDS
Approved on December
24, 1993
Article 8. Obligations
of press, media and government organisations
Press, media, religious
and public organisations, and business entities shall
have an obligations to participate in education about
and promotion to prevent HIVS/AIDS and to fight against
it.
The Law on Social
Welfare of the Disabled
December 19,
1995
Article
10. Cultural, artistic and sports events for the disabled
3. The following
activities shall be organised in other to keep the disabled
in high moral spirits:
- to promote life and work of
the disabled in state media free of charge
- to provide blind, deaf and mentally
retarded people with print and information designed
for them, to broadcast television programmes and
some movies wit
The Law on State
Symbol
Approved on May 20,
1994
Article 21. Running
the state anthem
1. The State Anthem
shall be run in the following cases:
5) at the beginning
and end of wide-reach radio programme
6) at the beginning
of the first day of television programs for national
holidays.
The Law on Administrative
Punishment
November 27, 1992
Article 30(2).
Failure to comply with legitimate requirements of police
officers, threatening them and giving false information
to the police
2. Penalty of togrog
500 to 5000 shall be imposed on those who refused, without
a justifiable reason, to allow authorised police officers
to use their transport, communication and information
means when it is needed to deliver urgent information
to the police, to get to the required destination, to
chase after criminals, to deliver people with injuries
as serious as to affect their health or lives, to deliver
criminals to the police, to arrest criminals, to inform
of criminal and administrative offences in cases of
crimes, industrial accidents, fires, natural disasters,
other dangers and social unrest.
(The amount of penalties
was raised by the law issued on April 17, 1995)
Article 30(3).
Refusing to fulfil legitimate requirements of prison
staff
2. Penalty of togrog
500 to 5000 shall be imposed on those who refused, without
a justifiable reason, to allow authorised employees
of prisons to use their transport, communication and
information facilities needed to chase and arrest escaped
prisoners.
Article 342. Violation
of procedures for using computers and information networks
and unauthorised access to computers and information
networks
A fine of togrog
10000 to 50000 shall be imposed on individuals and togrog
50000 to 60000 on officials who violated procedures
of using computers and networks, changed, erased or
closed access to information kept in computers or networks
by accessing them without authorisation, damaged computers
or their accessories making them impossible to use,
unlawfully copying information from computers or information
networks, or seized information in the course of being
transmitted via networks, in case these do not constitute
a criminal offence.
(This provision was
added by the law issued on January 15, 1998)
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