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No. 25 of 1927.
PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS.
Criminal liability of principal.
Service of process.
Copies of newspapers to be delivered to the registrar.
10. Without prejudice to the liability of any other person, the proprietor, printer, publisher and editor of any newspaper shall be liable criminally for any illegal matter contained in any issue of the newspaper, and the printer of any other printed document shall be liable criminally for any illegal matter contained in such document: Provided that a defendant shall not be liable under this section if he proves beyond reasonable doubt that the matter in question was printed without his authority, consent or knowledge and that the printing thereof did not arise from want of due care or caution on his part.
11. Without prejudice to any other method of service, any process whatsoever, civil or criminal, addressed to the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor of any newspaper shall for all purposes be deemed to be duly served if left with some adult at or sent by post to the registered address of the office of the newspaper.
12. The printer or publisher of every newspaper printed in the Colony shall, upon every day on which such newspaper is published or on the day next following which shall not be a holiday, deliver or cause to be delivered at the office of the registrar one copy of every such newspaper and of every second or other varied edition or impression thereof so printed or published, with the name and address of the printer or publisher thereof signed and written thereon after the same is printed, by his proper hand and accustomed manner of signing, or by some person appointed and authorized by him for that purpose and of whose appointment and authority due notice in writing signed by such printer or publisher has been given to the registrar; and such printer or publisher shall be entitled to demand and receive once in every month from the registrar the ordinary price of the newspapers so delivered; and in case any person requires any such newspaper so signed and delivered to be produced in evidence in any proceeding, civil or criminal, the registrar shall cause such newspaper to be produced in court when required at the expense of the party applying for it, or shall deliver the same to such party, taking reasonable security for his returning it, and all copies so delivered as aforesaid shall be evidence against every proprietor, printer, publisher and editor of every
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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