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[Subsidiary]
Newspaper permits.
Official communications.
Publication of certain matters.
CAP. 241]
Emergency (Principal) Regulations.
[1967 Ed.
as to which the authorized officer has reasonable ground for suspecting that it is an article to which an order as aforesaid applies.
(2) Any authorized officer, or any person acting under his directions, may enter any vehicle or other means of transport or go on board any ship or aircraft for the purpose of exercising the powers conferred on him by paragraph (1) in relation to any articles in or on the vehicle or other means of transport or on board the ship or aircraft.
13. (1) The Governor may by order require that with such exemptions as may be specified in such order no newspaper shall be printed or published unless the proprietor thereof shall have obtained a permit under the hand of a competent authority.
(2) The competent authority, in his discretion and without assigning any reason therefor, may grant or refuse any such permit and may attach conditions thereto and may at any time suspend or revoke any such permit or vary or delete any conditions attached to the permit or attach new conditions thereto.
(3) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this regulation or the conditions of any permit granted thereunder and the proprietor and editor of the newspaper in relation to which the contravention occurs shall each be guilty of an offence.
14. (1) A competent authority may order, in writing, any newspaper to publish any matter contained in an official communication issued for the information of the public and it shall be the duty of the editor, printer and publisher to publish, if required so to do, either-
(a) the original text of the communication, as submitted; or
(b) a text which shall contain all the material facts stated in the communication.
(2) If any of the provisions of this regulation are contravened, the editor, printer, and publisher of the newspaper shall each be guilty of an offence.
15. (1) The Governor may by order require that no notice, illustration, placard, advertisement, proclamation, pamphlet or other like document containing matter specified in such order (whether in the form of an article or statement of facts or otherwise) shall be printed or published in the Colony unless a permit has first been obtained under the hand of a competent authority:
Provided that this regulation shall not apply in relation to any matter contained in a newspaper in respect of which a permit or exemption is in force under regulation 13.
(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.
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