Newspaper and Printing Presses Bill
Table of Contents
Long Title
Enacting Formula
Part I PRELIMINARY
1 Short title and commencement
2 Interpretation
Part II PRINTING PRESSES
3 Licence to use printing press
4 Register of printing presses
Documents
5 Printed document to bear name of printer and publisher
6 Printer to keep copy of document and to produce same to an authorized person
Part III NEWSPAPER COMPANIES
7 Publisher of newspaper to be newspaper company unless exempted from this Part
8 Memorandum and articles to be approved
9 Special features of newspaper company
10 Funds from foreign source for the purposes of a newspaper other than commercial purposes prohibited
11 Application of this Part
Part IV NEWSPAPERS
12 No newspaper to be published without permit
13 Declaration before printing or publication of newspaper
14 Declaration of person ceasing to be printer or publisher
15 Cancellation of declaration
16 Declaration on change of ownership
17 Permit required for sale and distribution in Singapore of newspapers printed or published in Malaysia
18 Registrar of Newspapers
19 Newspaper register
20 Right to inspect newspaper register
21 Copy of entry in register to be evidence
Part V GENERAL
22 Offences
23 Power to seize and detain illegal newspapers
24 Wilful misrepresentation in declaration
25 Penalty
26 Sanction for prosecution
27 Presumption
28 Persons to act for company or firm
29 Search for unlicensed printing presses
30 Search when the requirements of this Act are not being complied with
31 Power to exempt documents, etc., from provisions of this Act
32 Exemptions
33 Rules
34 Repeal and transitional
Explanatory Statement
Expenditure of Public Money
Table of Derivations