Printing of Papers Act

“address” means place of business or abode;

“paper” means a handbill, circular, notice, newspaper, periodical or magazine containing public news, intelligence or occurrences, or any remarks or observations thereon, printed for sale or in order to be distributed or dispersed;

“print” includes any mechanical mode of reproduction; and “publish” means send forth for sale, distribution or dispersal.

printed, his name and address thereon as required by subsection (3) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

(2) Whoever distributes or disperses any paper which does not have the name and address of its publisher and, if the paper was printed in the Islands, its printer printed thereon as required by subsection (1), is guilty of an offence and liable

Section 4 Printing of Papers Law

on conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

(3) A name and address required to be printed on a paper under this section shall be printed in legible characters on the front of the paper if it consists of one leaf only, and in some conspicuous part of the paper if it consists of more than one leaf.

he shall write or cause to be written or printed in legible characters, the name and address of the person who engaged him to print the same. Such printer shall so keep such copy for one year after the printing thereof and shall produce the same forthwith to any Magistrate on being served within such year with a notice in writing under the hand and seal of such Magistrate requiring him so to do.

(2) Whoever fails to comply with subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months.

Publication in revised form authorised by the Governor in Council this 9th day of December, 1997.

Carmena H. Parsons Clerk of Executive Council