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[Subsidiary]
CAP. 241] Emergency (Principal) Regulations.
[1967 Ed.
(c) a person holding a commission in any of Her Majesty's regular forces, or in any local naval, military or air force corps or reserve.
Appointment of censor and censorship.
Prohibited matter.
Prohibited publications.
PART II.
CENSORSHIP AND CONTROL OF PUBLICATIONS AND MEANS OF COMMUNICATION.
5. (1) The Governor may appoint a censor of postal packets and telegrams and such number of assistant and deputy assistant censors as he shall think fit, and the word “censor" in these regulations includes any assistant censor so appointed.
(2) The Governor may by warrant under his hand authorize the Postmaster General and any person in charge of cable and radio stations to detain and produce to the censor all postal packets and telegrams coming into their possession either for transmission or delivery.
(3) The censor, or any person authorized by him, may open, examine, censor or detain either permanently or for so long a period as he may deem necessary any postal packet or telegram of any description whatsoever which may be in course of, or intended for, transmission to, from or through the Colony.
(4) Any person who without lawful authority transmits any telegram at any place in the Colony or on any vessel or aircraft within the territorial waters thereof unless such telegram has first been passed for transmission by the censor is guilty of an offence.
6. (1) A competent authority may by order prohibit generally or specially the publishing in publications of matter the publishing of which, in his opinion, would be, or be likely to be or become, prejudicial to the public interest.
(2) Any person who publishes any matter in contravention of an order under this regulation and the proprietor and editor of the publication in which it is published and the person who wrote, printed, drew or designed, the matter shall be guilty of an offence.
7. (1) A competent authority may by order prohibit the importation or exportation, or the printing or publishing of any particular publication or of any publication of a particular kind or character, the importation, exportation, printing or publishing of which, in his opinion, would be, or would be likely to be or become, prejudicial to the public interest. Such prohibition shall be deemed to extend to any copy or portion of such publication.
P 12
[Subsidiary]
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CAP. 241] Emergency (Principal) Regulations.
[1967 Ed.
(c) a person holding a commission in any of Her Majesty's regular forces, or in any local naval, military or air force. corps or reserve.
Appointment of
censor and
censorship.
Prohibited matter.
Prohibited publications.
PART II.
CENSORSHIP AND CONTROL OF PUBLICATIONS AND
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION.
5. (1) The Governor may appoint a censor of postal packet and telegrams and such number of assistant and deputy assistant censors as he shall think fit, and the word “censor" in these regula- tions includes any assistant censor so appointed.
(2) The Governor may by warrant under his hand authorize the Postmaster General and any person in charge of cable and radio stations to detain and produce to the censor all postal packets and telegrams coming into their possession either for transmission or delivery.
(3) The censor, or any person authorized by him, may open, examine, censor or detain either permanently or for so long a period as he may deem necessary any postal packet or telegram of any description whatsoever which may be in course of, or intended for, transmission to, from or through the Colony.
(4) Any person who without lawful authority transmits any telegram at any place in the Colony or on any vessel or aircraft within the territorial waters thereof unless such telegram has first been passed for transmission by the censor is guilty of an offence.
6. (1) A competent authority may by order prohibit generally or specially the publishing in publications of matter the publishing of which, in his opinion, would be, or be likely to be or become, prejudicial to the public interest.
(2) Any person who publishes any matter in contravention of an order under this regulation and the proprietor and editor of the publication in which it is published and the person who wrote, printed, drew or designed, the matter shall be guilty of an offence.
7. (1) A competent authority may by order prohibit the importation or exportation, or the printing or publishing of any particular publication or of any publication of a particular kind or character, the importation, exportation, printing or publishing of which, in his opinion, would be, or would be likely to be or become, prejudicial to the public interest. Such prohibition shall be deemed to extend to any copy or portion of such publication.
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