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Ord. No. 15/87

CONTROL OF PUBLICATIONS CONSOLIDATION (AMENDMENT)

(3) Every proprietor, printer, publisher or editor of a copy of a local newspaper produced or delivered under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor respectively of all local newspapers which are of the same title, purport or effect as the copy of the local newspaper so produced or delivered (any minor variations being disregarded) unless the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor proves that those local newspapers were not printed, published or edited by him or with his knowledge or consent.". Section 18 of the principal Ordinance is amended-- by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following-

"(a) the registration of local newspapers and news agencies and their proprietors, printers, publishers and editors and the keeping of registers for that purpose;"; (b) in paragraph (b), by deleting "distributors of newspapers" and

substituting the following-

Amendment of section 18.

14.

(a)

Amendment of

section 19.

Amendment of section 20.

"newspaper distributors";

(c) in paragraph (c), by deleting "licensed distributors" and substitut-

ing the following-

"newspaper distributors licensed for that purpose”;

(d) in paragraph (e), by deleting "imported newspapers" and sub-

stituting the following-

"newspapers printed or produced outside Hong Kong";

(e) by deleting paragraph (ƒ);

(in paragraph (h)--

(i) by deleting "newspaper or printed document or publica- tion" and substituting the following-

"local newspaper or other printed document"; and

(ii) by deleting "printed documents of any category" and substituting the following-

"local newspapers and other printed documents";

(g) in paragraphs (1) and (j), by inserting before “printed documents"

wherever it occurs the following

"local newspapers and other";

(h) by deleting paragraph (k); and

(i) in paragraph (m), by deleting "and deposits".

15. Section 19 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "periodical publication" and substituting the following-

"local newspaper”.

16. Section 20 of the principal Ordinance is amended— (a) in subsection (1)——

(i) in paragraph (a), by deleting "$2,000" and substituting the following

"$5,000"; and

(ii) in paragraph (b), by deleting “$10,000" and substituting the following-

"$15,000"; and