2
REGISTRATION OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988
Explanatory Memorandum
This Bill amends the Registration of Local Newspapers Ordinance (Cap. 268) to remove certain categories of document from the definition of "printed document" and to prohibit the registration of local newspapers with identical names to those already registered.
2. Clause 2 amends the definition of “printed document" contained in section 2 of the Ordinance by excluding from that definition documents of a bona fide commercial, professional, social or administrative purpose or documents used by public bodies, e.g. prescribed forms. At present the Printed Documents (Control) Regulations (which are made under section 18 of the Ordinance) require that all printed documents must bear the printer's name and address and that the printer of those documents must keep them for at least 6 months. The effect of the Bill will relax these requirements for the categories of document now excluded from the definition of “printed document".
3. Clause 3 amends section 7 (which requires the registration of all local newspapers in accordance with regulations) by prohibiting the registration of a local newspaper if another local newspaper bearing the same name is already registered.
4. The Bill has no Public Service staffing or public expenditure
implications.
1988年本地報刊註冊(修訂)條例草案
摘要說明
本草案修訂本地報刊註冊條例(香港法例第268章),藉以刪除「印刷品」定 義下若干類別的文件,及禁止名稱與已註冊報刊相同的本地報刊註冊
。
2. 草案第2條修訂條例第2條所載「印刷品」的定義,從而使該定義並不包括 真正屬商業、專業、社會或行政用途的文件,或公共機構所使用的文件,例如規定 表格。現時,印刷品(管制)規例(依據條例第18條的規定制定)規定,所有印刷品 必須載明印刷商的名稱及地址,而該等文件的印刷商亦必須將文件保留最少6個 月。本草案使屆時不再包括在「印刷品」定義下的各類文件,得以放寬遵守上述規 定。
3. 草案第3條修訂條例第7條(規定所有本地報刊按照規例註冊),從而規 定:假使一份本地報刊經已註册,則另一份本地報刊不得用同一名稱註冊。
。
4. 本草案對政府人手或公共開支都没有影響。