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CAP. 268]

Originally 15 of 1951.

57 of 1955.

8 of 1977.

G.N.A. 114/51.

Short title.

Interpretation.

Control of Publications Consolidation [1979 Ed.

CHAPTER 268

CONTROL OF PUBLICATIONS CONSOLIDATION

To amend and consolidate the law relating to the printing, publica- tion, sale, distribution, importation, control, registration and licensing of newspapers and other printed matter and to the control of printing presses and news agencies.

[1 July 1951.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Control of Publica- tions Consolidation Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires— "address" in the case of an individual means his residence or usual place of business, and in the case of a corporation means the head office of such corporation within the Colony;

"contravene" includes a failure to comply;

"editor" means the chief editor if there are more editors than one, and includes any person acting as chief editor or performing any of the usual functions of a chief editor;

"import" means to bring in or cause to be brought into the

Colony by land, air or water;

"local newspaper" means a newspaper printed in the Colony; "newspaper" means any publication containing news, intelligence, reports of occurrences, or any remarks, observations or com- ments, in relation to such news, intelligence or occurrences, or to any other matter of public interest, printed for sale or free distribution at regular or irregular intervals and includes a supplement thereto;

"pamphlet" means an unbound printed document of one or more pages or parts and containing an exposition on some matter of current or topical or political interest;

"periodical publication" includes every publication issued periodi- cally or in parts or numbers at intervals whether regular or irregular;

"person", except so far as relates to the imposition of the penalty of imprisonment, includes a body corporate and a firm;

"printed document" includes every piece of paper, cloth or other similar material, bearing any words, pictures or signs which were or appear to have been wholly or partly produced by any mechanical copying process, and also includes every collection of printed documents bound together;