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CAP. 268]
Newspapers Registration and Distribution Regulations
[1988 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
Registration fees, etc.
12. (1) A fee of $450 shall be payable on registration under regulation 2.
(2) An annual fee of $450 shall be payable for every year other than the first during which such registration remains in force and shall become due on the anniversary of the day upon which the registration was effected.
(3) A fee of $45 shall be payable on every occasion upon which substituted particulars are furnished under regulation 5.
Distributor to be licensed
(L.N. 95/88)
13. (1) Subject to paragraph (3), no newspaper shall be distributed for sale except by a newspaper distributor licensed by the Registrar.
(2) A licence shall be in Form 2 in the Schedule and a fee of $450 per annum or part thereof shall be payable for such licence for the period ending 31 December of any year.
(3) No licence shall, by reason of this regulation, be required for the sale by retail of any newspaper to any member of the public.
Distribution of newspapers only
(L.N. 95/88)
14. No document (other than a document forming an integral part of a newspaper) shall be distributed in or with any newspaper without the consent of the Registrar.
Copies of newspapers printed or produced outside Hong Kong to be supplied to Registrar
(L.N. 95/88)
15. (1) A newspaper distributor licensed under regulation 13 shall supply to the Registrar on the day of distribution or on the day next following (other than a holiday) a copy of every newspaper printed or produced outside Hong Kong and distributed by him and of every second or other varied edition or impression of that newspaper so distributed.
(2) The copy of every newspaper supplied to the Registrar under paragraph (1) shall bear the signature, full name and address of the newspaper distributor.
(3) The Registrar shall keep in his possession the copy of every newspaper supplied to him under paragraph (1) for a period of not less than 6 months after which time he may destroy or otherwise dispose of that copy.
16. [Repealed, L.N. 95/88]
Exemption
(L.N.95/88)
17. (1) The Registrar may exempt any local newspaper from all or any of the provisions of these regulations.