1987 Ed.]
Registration of Local Newspapers
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"proprietor" includes lessee;
"Registrar" means such officer as may be appointed by the Governor to act as registrar of newspapers, and includes any person appointed by the Governor to act as deputy registrar of newspapers.
3-6. [Repealed, 15 of 1987, s. 5]
7. (1) Every local newspaper shall be registered in accordance with regulations made under section 18.
(2) The proprietor of any local newspaper may at any time give notice to the Registrar that he desires the registration of that local newspaper to cease and the Registrar shall, on the receipt of such notice, cancel the registration of that local newspaper which shall cease to be registered from the date of such cancellation.
(Replaced, 15 of 1987, s. 6)
8-10. [Repealed, 15 of 1987, s. 7]
11. Where any particular is by this Ordinance or by any regulation made thereunder required to be furnished and any particular furnished by way of compliance with such requirement is incorrect, the person who certified the correctness of such particular shall be deemed to have committed an offence against this Ordinance unless he proves-
(a) that he believed that the particular furnished was correct;
and
(b) that he could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence have discovered its incorrectness.
12. In any proceedings whatsoever against the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor of any local newspaper, it shall be lawful for the complainant or plaintiff to put in any entry in or certified extract from any register of local newspapers kept by the Registrar in accordance with regulations made under section 18, either- (Amended, 15 of 1987, s. 8)
(a) as evidence of the truth of the matters stated in such entry or extract; or
(b) as evidence that the particulars appearing in such entry or extract were furnished and certified by the informant by whom they purport to have been furnished and certified.
13. In any proceedings whatsoever it shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed that the person whose name appears in any local newspaper or other document as the printer of that local newspaper or other document is in fact the printer.
14. [Repealed, 15 of 1987, s. 10]
(Replaced, 15 of 1987, s. 9)
Registration of local newspapers.
Unlawful to furnish incorrect particulars.
Certified extract from local newspaper register to be admissible in evidence.
Presumption as to printer.