Criminal liability of principal.
Service of process.
Coples of newspaperH to be delivered to the
Registrar.
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(6) It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General, the Director of Commerce and Industry and the Commissioner of Police or any person duly authorized by any such officer to detain, open and examine any package or article which is suspected to be or to contain a publication the importation of which has been prohibited by section 5.
(7) Any police officer who is lawfully upon any premises or place whether in pursuance of any warrant or otherwise howsoever and any officer who by virtue of subsection (6) is authorized to open any package may seize remove and detain anything with respect to which any offence against this Ordinance or against any regulation made hereunder may appear to have been committed or which may appear to be or contain evidence of the commission of any such offence.
13. Without prejudice to the liability of any other person, the proprietor, printer, publisher and editor of any local newspaper shall be liable criminally for any illegal matter contained in any issue of such 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.
14. Without prejudice to any other method of service, any process whatsoever, civil or criminal, addressed to the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor of any local newspaper shall for all purposes be deemed to be duly served if left with some adult at ori sent by registered post to the registered address of the office of the newspaper.
15. The printer or publisher of every local newspaper 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 of 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 in his 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 in case any person requires
any
such newspaper so signed and delivered to be produced in evidence in any proceedings, 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 such newspaper in all proceedings, civil or criminal, to be commenced or carried on as well touching such newspapers as any matter or thing therein contained, and touching any other newspaper, and any matter or thing therein contained, which may be of the same title, purport or effect with such copy so delivered as aforesaid, although such copy may vary in some instances or particulars as to title, purport or effect; and every proprietor, printer, publisher or editor of any copy so delivered as aforesaid shall to all intents and purposes be deemed to be the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor respectively of all newspapers which are of the same title, purport or effect with such copies or impressions so delivered as aforesaid, notwithstanding such variances as aforesaid, unless such proprietor, printer, publisher or editor respectively proves that sach newspapers were not printed or published or edited by him or by or with his knowledge or privity. The Registrar shall not be required to keep any copy for a longer period than six months.
tions.
16. (1) The Governor in Council may by regulations pres- Regula- cribe or provide for-
(a) the registration of local newspapers (including news agencies) and their proprietors, printers, publishers and editors;
(b) the control whether by licensing or otherwise howsoever of newspapers, periodicals and printed documents and of the printing publication distribution and sale thereof; (c) the identification of press representatives on their request by the issue of passes or otherwise by such authority as may be prescribed;
(d) the registration, sale, purchase, removal, use, control and
licensing of printing presses;
(e) granting exemption from all or any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any of the regulations made here- under;
(f) fees and deposits;
(g) forms either in addition to or in substitution for the
forms in the Second Schedule;
(b) anything which is by this Ordinance to be prescribed by regulations and such regulations may provide that