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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH MARCH, 1886.

No Newspaper to be publish-ed save in accordance with the pro-visions herein. [Re-enact-ment No. 2 of 1844, s. 1.] Declaration. [12 of 1844, s. 6.) [44 and 45 V. c. 60, s. 9.]

Change of place, print-ing or publish-ing. [Ibid.] Printer or Publisher leaving Colony. [Ibid.] Penalty for non obser-vance of s. 5. [Ibid. s. 2.] Declaration on person ceasing to be Printer, &c. [Ibid, s. 5.] Change of proprietor-ship. [44 and 45 V. c. 60, s. 9.] Penalty for omission to make the Declaration in s. 7. [44 and 45 V. c. 60, s. 10.] (£25.) Power for party on change of proprietor-ship to make Declaration. [44 and 45 V. c. 60, s. 11.] Authority to make Declara-tion of some only of proprietors. [44 and 45 V. c. 60, s. 7.] Exception as to Newspapers and Papers of Companies. [44 and 45 V. c. 60, s. 18.] Printers to keep copy of Newspapers and Books and to produce on request of Magistrate. 139 Geo. III c. 79, s. 29, 32 and 33 V. c. 24.] Month means Calendar, s. 1 of 67.1 Penalty. (£20.)

PART II.—Printers, Publishers, and Proprietors.

4. From and after the expiration of seven days from the coming into operation of this Ordinance no newspaper shall be printed or published within the Colony except in conformity with the provisions hereinafter contained.

(1.) The Printer and Publisher of every newspaper shall appear before the Registrar and shall make and subscribe in the Newspaper Register a Declaration according to the form No. 1 in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

(2.) As often as the place of printing or publication is changed, a new Declaration shall be necessary.

(3.) As often as the printer or publisher who shall have made the aforesaid Declaration shall leave the Colony permanently or temporarily, a Decla-ration from another Printer or Publisher resident within the Colony shall be necessary.

5. Whoever shall print or publish any newspaper without conforming to the provisions in Section 4, or whoever shall print and publish or cause to be printed or published any newspaper knowing that the said provisions have not been complied with, shall on conviction be liable to a penalty of not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

6. If any person, who has made and subscribed the De-claration prescribed by Section 4, ceases to be the printer or publisher of the newspaper mentioned in such Declara-tion, he may appear before the Registrar and may make and subscribe a Declaration in the Newspaper Register according to the form No. 2 in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

7. Upon every change of the proprietor of any news-paper, or upon every transfer or transmission of or dealing therein whereby any person ceases to be a proprietor or any new proprietor is introduced, it shall be the duty of the printers and publishers for the time being of such newspaper within 21 days from the time of such change, transfer or transmission as aforesaid, to appear before the Registrar and subscribe a Declaration in the Newspaper Register according to the form No. 3 in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

8. If within the said period of twenty-one days such Declaration shall not be made, then each printer and publisher of such newspaper shall on conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding $150.

9. Any party to a transfer or transmission of or dealing with any share of or interest in any newspaper whereby any person ceases to be a proprietor or any new proprietor is introduced, may at any time make or cause to be made the Declaration prescribed by Section 7 of this Ordinance.

10. Where in the opinion of the Governor in Council inconvenience would arise or be caused in any case from making a Declaration of the names of all the proprietors of the newspaper (either owing to minority, coverture, absence from the Colony, minute subdivision of shares or other special circumstances) it shall be lawful for the printers or publishers of such newspaper, upon the order of the Governor in Council, to make such declaration with the name or names of some one or more representative pro-prietors.

11. The provisions herein before contained in reference to the proprietor of any newspaper shall not extend or apply to any newspaper which belongs to a Joint-stock Company duly incorporated under the Ordinances relating to Joint-stock Companies.

12. Every person who shall print any newspaper, paper, or book for hire, reward, gain or profit, shall carefully pre-serve and keep one copy (at least) of every newspaper, paper, or book so printed by him, on which he shall write or print or cause to be written or printed in legible charac-ters the name and place of residence of the person or per-sons by whom he is employed to print the same and shall keep and preserve the same for the space of six months after the printing thereof and shall produce and show the same to a Police Magistrate of the Colony if required to do so within the said six months, and every person who shall omit or neglect any of the provisions of this Section shall on conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred Dollars.

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