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Ord. No. 15/87
CONTROL OF PUBLICATIONS CONSOLIDATION (AMENDMENT)
(d) by deleting the definition of "newspaper” and substituting the
following
Schedule.
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"newspaper" means any paper or other publication and any supplement thereto available to the general public which-
(a) contains news, intelligence, occurrences or any remarks, observations or comments in relation to such news, intelligence, or occurrences or to any other matter of public interest; and
(b) is printed or produced for sale or free distribution and published either periodically (whether half- yearly, quarterly, monthly, fortnightly, weekly, daily or otherwise) or in parts or numbers at intervals not exceeding 6 months; and
(c) does not comprise exclusively any item or items
specified in the Schedule;"; and
(e) by deleting the definitions of "pamphlet", "periodical publica- tion", "person", "printed document", "printing press” and “pub- lication" and substituting the following-
Repeal of
5.
sections 3, 4, 5
and 6.
Repeal and
replacement of section 7.
Repeal of sections 8, 9 and 10.
Amendment of section 12.
6.
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""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, electrical or other copying process in Hong Kong and the collection of such pieces of paper, cloth or other material in any bound or other permanent form;".
Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the principal Ordinance are repealed.
Section 7 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-
"Registration
of local newspapers.
7. (1) Every local newspaper shall be registered in accordance with regulations made under section 18.
(2) The proprietor of any local newspaper may at any time give notice to the Registrar that he desires the registra- tion of that local newspaper to cease and the Registrar shall, on the receipt of such notice, cancel the registration of that local newspaper which shall cease to be registered from the date of such cancellation.".
7. Sections 8, 9 and 10 of the principal Ordinance are repealed.
8.
Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "newspaper register" and substituting the following--
"register of local newspapers kept by the Registrar in accordance with
regulations made under section 18".
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