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434 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 21, 1913.

No. 362.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

4th October, 1913.

SIR, With reference to my Circular despatch of the 21st of June last, I have the honour to transmit, for your information, a copy of an Act which was passed in the recent Session of Parliament-3 and 4 Geo. 5, Chapter 11-to enable newspapers published in British Possessions or Protectorates to be registered and be treated as registered newspapers under the Post Office Act, 1908.

I have, &c.,

L. HARCOURT.

The Officer Administering the Government of

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HONGKONG.

[3 & 4 GEO. 5.]

POST OFFICE ACT, 1913.

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[CH. 11.]

A.D. 1918.

Extension of provisions as

papers to

CHAPTER 11.

An Act to enable Newspapers published in British Possessions or Protec- torates to be registered and be treated as Registered Newspapers under the Post Office Act, 1908.

[15th August 1913.]

Be and content of the Lords Spiritual and Tempral, and Commons, in this

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice

present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. The provisions of the Post Office Act, 1908, relating to the registration of to registra- newspapers and registered newspapers shall apply to publications printed and tion of news published in a British possession or protectorate as they apply to publications newspapers printed and published in the British Islands, and accordingly paragraph (a) of published

sub-section (1) of section twenty of the Post Office Act, 1908 (which relates to the publications which may be registered as a newspaper), shall be read as if the words or in some British possession or protectorate were inserted after the words "in the British Islands

in British possessions

or protec-

torates.

8 Edw. 7. c. 48.

Short title.

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Provided that the Postmaster General may refuse to register as a newspaper a publication printed and published in a British possession or protectorate, unless arrangements have been made to his satisfaction for maintaining a responsible representative of the publication in the United Kingdom.

For the purposes of this provision, the expression shall be deemed to include the Malay States and Cyprus.

"British Protectorate

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2. This Act may be cited as the Post Office Act, 1913, and shall be read as one with the Post Office Act, 1908.