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  Newspaper and Printing Presses Bill

  Table of Contents


Bill No: 9/1974
Read the first time: 14th March 1974

  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

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