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REGISTRATION OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988

The Secretary for Administrative Services and Information moved the Second Reading of 'A Bill to amend the Registration of Local Newspapers Ordinance'.

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He said :

Sir,

I move that the Registration of Local Newspapers

(Amendment) Bill 1988 be read the second time.

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This short

piece of legislation is intended to remedy two defects in

the Registration of Local Newspapers Ordinance which came

into effect in March 1987.

Clause 2 of the Bill seeks to narrow the

definition of a

printed document". The effect of the

present definition found in section 2 of the Ordinance currently in force would be to require under the Printed

Documents

(Control), Regulations

and

that

documents

such as

invitation cards or photocopies of correspondence bear the name and address of the printer. We had not intended that

the Ordinance should have this effect and I now propose,

by an appropriate amendment, to exclude documents printed

for

bona fide

commercial,

administrative purposes.

professional, social

or

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