PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS.
No. 4 of 1886.
331
PART IIA
PRINTING PRESSES.
of printing
18.-(1) No person shall keep in his possession any press for the printing of newspapers, books, or papers who has not made and subscribed before the Registrar in the newspaper register a declaration according to the Form No. 4 in the Schedule, to be made in like manner as is prescribed for the declarations hereinbefore mentioned.
(2) Every person who keeps in his possession any such press without making such declaration shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or to imprisonment, without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months.
PART III.
GENERAL.
newspaper
44 & 45 Vict.
19. Any person shall be at liberty to search and inspect the newspaper register during the hours of business of the Supreme Court, on payment of one dollar for every such search and inspection; and any person may require a copy of any entry or an extract from the said book to be certified by the Registrar under the seal of the court, on payment of two dollars for every such copy.
newspaper
be evidence.
20. Every such certified copy shall be received as conclusive evidence of the contents of the said register so far as the same appear in such copy or extract, without proof of the signature thereto or of the seal of the court affixed thereto; and every such certified copy or extract shall in all proceedings, civil or criminal, be accepted as sufficient primâ facie evidence of all the matters and things thereby appearing, unless and until the contrary thereof is shown.
44 & 45 Vict. c. 60, s. 15.
misrepresentation in declaration."
C.
*
21. Every person who knowingly and wilfully makes or causes to be made, any declaration by this Ordinance required or permitted to be made in which there is any untruth or misrepresentation, or from which there is any omission, in respect of any of the particulars by this Ordinance required to be contained therein, whereby such declaration is misleading, and every proprietor of a newspaper who knowingly and wilfully permits any declaration under section 3 or section 6 to be made, which is misleading with reference to his own name, occupation, place of business, if any, or place of residence, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.