(3) Upon the making of any order by a magistrate under subsection (2) it shall be an offence against this Ordinance--
(4) to contravene any such order;
(b) to print sell offer for sale or distribute any newspaper the publication of which or any publication in which constitutes an offence by virtue of this subsection; and (c) during the validity of any such order to remove from the premises whereon the same may be anything which the Commissioner of Police is directed by subsection (4) hereof to seize upon an order of suppression.
(4) Upon the making of any order for the suppression of any newspaper, the Commissioner of Police or any police officer authorized by him in writing under his hand shall seize and detain all the machinery, type, appliances, paper, printing| materials, writing materials, books, documents, writings, effects, and things used to produce the suppressed newspaper and is hereby empowered for such purpose-
(a) to break open any outer or inner door of any premises
upon which the same may be;
(b) forcibly to enter upon such premises;
(c) forcibly to remove any personal or material obstruction
(5) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Police or any police officer authorized by him in writing under his hand to remove anything which he is by subsection (4) directed to seize to such place or places within the Colony as he may in his dis- cretion see fit, and there to keep the same so long as such order shall subsist. All expenses incurred by the Commissioner of Police shall be repaid to him before the return by him of the property, effects and things seized, and in default of payment of such expenses, or any part thereof, within one month from the expiration of the order for suppression, the Commissioner of Police may sell so much of the property, effects and things seized as appear to him to be necessary to satisfy such expenses, and he shall apply the net proceeds of sale in the first place in or towards satisfaction of such expenses, and in the next place he shall refund the balance (if any) to the person entitled thereto.
(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (5) the Court or a magistrate may in addition to making an order of
suppression make any order of forfeiture which a magistrate is empowered to make under subsection (3) of section 12, and in such event the provisions of subsection (4) of section 12 shall apply in lieu of the provisions of subsection (5) of this section.
prohibit
of publica-
5. (1) If it appears to the Governor in Council that the Power to importation of any particular publication or of any publication importation
a particular kind or character is calculated or is likely to be tions. prejudicial to the security of the Colony or the prevention of crime or to the maintenance within the Colony of public order, safety, health or morals, he may by order prohibit the importa- tion thereof.
(2) Whenever the publication, the importation of which is prohibited, is a periodical publication any such order shall until it is revoked operate as a prohibition of the importation of any future issue thereof but shall not operate as a prohibition of the importation of any past issue thereof unless the order or any subsequent order expressly so provides.
(3) Whenever the importation of a publication has been prohibited it shall be an offence against this Ordinance to sell, offer for sale, distribute or he in possession of the same or any
commit an offence if
extract thereof in the Colony: Provided that a person shall not
(4) in the case of a periodical publication he sells distributes or is in possession of past issues, the importation where- of has not been prohibited;
(b) in the case of a publication of a particular kind or character he satisfied a Court or a magistrate that he was unaware and had no reason to believe that the publication was of such kind or character:
(c) in the case of any publication he was in possession for so long only as was reasonably necessary to deliver the same to the nearest police station.
8.
maliciously to publish in any local newspaper false news which tion of
(1) I shall be an offence against this Ordinance Malicious
publica- is likely to alarm public opinion or disturb public order.
No false news prosecution for any such offence shall be initiated without the constitute consent in writing of the Attorney General.
to
an offence.