Examino- tion of consign-
menta.
Newspaper permits.
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officer, or any person acting under his directions, may enter the vehicle or other means of Transport or ship or aircraft for the purpose of exercising the powers conferred on him by sub regulation (1) of this regulation, and may also examine or search the vehicle or other means of transport or ship or aircraft for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is thereon any article with respect to which an order under sub-regulation (2) of re- gulation to is in force.
(3) Where at any place in the Colony any person is on any occasion found in circumstances in which it is reasonable to suppose that on that occasion he has communicated, or intends to communicate, at that place with a traveller, the provisions of sub-regulation (1) of this regulation shall apply in relation to the person so found as they apply in relation to a travelier.
12. (1) If there is in force an order under sub-regulation (2) of regulation to, any authorized officer, or any person acting under his directions, may examine or search any articles con- signed from the Colony or from a place outside the Colony to a destination in the Colony, for the purpose of ascertaining whether any article to which such order applies is being sent or conveyed and may seize any article found upon such examination or search, being an article 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 sub-regulation (1) of this re- gulation 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.
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(3) Any person who contravenes this regulation or the conditions of any permit thereunder and the proprietor and editor
of the newspaper in relation to which the contravention occurs shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations.
14. (1) A competent authority may order, in writing, any Official newspaper to publish any matter contained in an official com- communica-
tions, munication 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-
mitted for
(4) the original text of the communication, as sub-
(b) a text which shall contain all the material facts stated in the communication.
(*) If the provisions of this regulation are contravened, the editor, printer, and publisher of the newspaper shall cach be guilty of an offence against these regulations.
of certain mattors.
15. (1) The Governor may by order require that no notice, Publication lustration, 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 other- wise) 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 malter contained in a newspaper in respect of which a permit or exemption is in force under regulation 13.
(2) Any person who contravenes this regulation shall le guilty of an offence against these regulations.
16. (r) A competent authority may by order require the Power to proprietor, editor, printer or publisher of any publication, or the require
submission proprietor or manager of any printing press or printing business, of matter or the author of, or any person about to print or publish, any sorship matter, to submit to such competent authority before printing or before
publication. publishing any matter intended for printing or publishing.
(2) Any such order may be given either generally or in respect of any particular subject or class of subject, and, in the case of a publication published at regular or irregular in- ervals, may be given in respect of any particular issue or class of issues or of all issues for a specified period.
(3) Any person who contravenes an order under this regulation shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations.
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