REGISTRATION OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS
(AMENDMENT)
L.S.
HONG KONG
No. 51 of 1988
I assent.
Ord. No. 51/88
A267
David WILSON,
Governor.
30 June 1988
An Ordinance to amend the Registration of Local Newspapers Ordinance.
[1 July 1988]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
1.
This Ordinance may be cited as the Registration of Local News- Short title papers (Amendment) Ordinance 1988.
2. Section 2 of the Registration of Local Newspapers Ordinance is Interpretation
(Cap. 268)
amended--
(a) in the definition of "printed document" by adding at the end
thereof
"but does not include--
(a) any document solely intended and solely used for a bona fide and ordinary commercial, professional, social or administrative purpose; or
(b) any other document issued or used by any public
body"; and
(b) by adding after the definition of "proprietor❞—
(Cap. 201)
"public body" has the same meaning as it has in the Preven-
tion of Bribery Ordinance;".
3. Section 7 is amended by adding after subsection (1)—
"(1A) No local newspaper shall be registered under subsection (1) by a name which is identical with the name by which another local newspaper is already registered.".
Registration of local
newspapers