Education Act 105. Section 16 (1) (b) of the Education Act, Chapter 134 empowers the Minister to cancel registration of any private school that conducts itself in a manner that is detrimental to the interests of peace, order or to the physical, mental or moral welfare of the persons receiving instruction thereat. Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation Act 106. Section 31 of the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation Act, Chapter 154 empowers the Minister to cancel at any time or refuse to issue a licence or to renew a licence issued to a broadcaster or operator of a diffusion service in terms of the Act, if he is satisfied, after inquiry, that the cancellation or the refusal to issue or renew the licence is justified in the public interest. 107. Section 27 of the same Act, read together with Section 60 (1) (f), (g) and (j) of the Penal Code, empowers the Minister to prohibit the broadcasting of seditious programmes. Societies Act 108. Section 8 of the Societies Act, Chapter 119, empowers the Registrar of Societies to refuse to register any society where it appears that such society had among its objects or is likely to pursue or to be used for any unlawful purpose or for any purpose prejudicial to or incompatible with the peace, welfare or good order in Zambia or that the interests of the peace, welfare or good order in Zambia would otherwise be likely to suffer 58