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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 370.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 15th December, 1927 :-

C.S.O. 6121/12.

[No. 8-12.12 27.—7.]

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A BILL

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Regulations.

INTITU LED

An Ordinance to regulate the printing of news- papers and the keeping and use of printing

presses.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Printers and Publishers Ordinance, 1927.

2. In this Ordinance,

(a) "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.

(b) "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 func- tions of a chief editor.

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(e) "Newspaper' includes every periodical which is printed or published in the Colony at intervals not exceeding one month, and which contains any public news or any comments on public news.

(d) "Person", except so far as relates to the imposition of the penalty of imprisonment, includes a body corporate and a firm.

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(e) "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 or copying process, and also includes every collection of printed documents bound together.

(f) "Printing press" includes every machine and apparatus adapted and apparently intended for repro- ducing words, pictures or signs on paper, cloth or other similar material, and every part of any such machine or apparatus, but shall not include any appa- ratus intended and used for reproducing plans only, or any apparatus intended and used only for printing patterns on textiles, or any purely photographic appara- tus intended and used for reproducing photographs only.

(g) "Proprietor" includes lessee.

(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.