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Regulations.
Registration of news- papers.
Schedule
Form No. 1.
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(h) "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.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make such regulations as he may think fit with reference to the registration of newspapers and their proprietors, printers, publishers and editors, and with reference to the keeping and use of printing presses, and to prescribe fees.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof hold after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legis- lative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended as to the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
4.- (1) Every newspaper shall be registered.
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(2) In order to effect registration one of the persons specified in sub-section (3) shall furnish to Registrar the particulars specified in Form No. 1 in the Schedule and shall certify the correctness of such particulars and of his own description.
(3) The particulars specified shall be furnished and certified by the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor of the newspaper.
(4) If any change occurs, or if any inaccuracy is discovered, in any of the specified particulars, the per- sons specified in sub-section (3) shall, within seven days or such shorter period as may be provided by regulation, furnish substituted particulars to the Registrar, and shall certify the correctness of such substituted particulars and of their own descriptions: Provided that if one of such persons complies with the requirements of this sub-section the obligations imposed by this sub-section on any other persons shall be deemed to have been discharged as regards the substituted particular so furnished.
(5) A change shall be deemed to have occurred in the identity of the editor if the editor is absent from the Colony or if he ceases substantially to exercise the functions of an editor.
(6) If the particulars are furnished by a company the certificate shall be given by a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company, and if the particulars are furnished by a firm, the certificate shall be given by a partner of the firm.
(7) If any particular or substituted particular which purports to be furnished in accordance with the require- ments of this section is incorrect, the person who certified the correctness of such particular shall be deemed to have contravened 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 incorrect-
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(8) No person shall print or publish or act as editor of, or continue to print or publish or act as editor of, any newspaper unless all the requirements of this section with respect to such newspaper have been complied with.
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