Declaration to be made, etc., before printing or publishing newspapers

(1) No person shall print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, any newspaper before there is delivered to the Chief Executive Officer a declaration in writing containing information on the several matters and things herein specified, made, before that is to say, (a) the correct title of the newspaper to which it relates; (b) the true description of the house or building wherein the newspaper is intended to be printed, and also of the house or building wherein the newspaper is intended to be published by or on behalf of the proprietor thereof; 10 (c) the true name, addition and place of abode of any person who is intended to be the printer, or to conduct the actual printing of the newspaper, and of every person who is intended to be the publisher thereof, and of every person who is a proprietor of such newspaper resident out of Belize, and also of every person resident in Belize who is a proprietor of the same, if the number of such last-mentioned persons exclusive of the printer and publisher does not exceed two. In case the numbers exceed two, then of such two persons, being the proprietors resident in Belize, the amount of whose respective proportional shares in the property or in the profit or loss of the newspaper is not less than the proportional share of any other proprietor thereof resident in Belize, exclusive of the printer and publisher, and also where the number of the proprietors resident in Belize exceeds two, the amount of the proportional shares or interests of the several proprietors whose names are specified in the declaration. (2) Every such declaration shall be made, and signed by every person named therein as printer or publisher of the newspaper to which the declaration relates, and by such of the persons named therein as proprietors as are resident within Belize. (3) A declaration of the like import shall be made, signed, and delivered in like manner, (a) whenever and so often as any share, interest, or property in any newspaper named in any is assigned, transferred or changed by act of the parties or by operation of law, so that the respective proportional shares or interests of the persons named in 11 any declaration as proprietors of the newspaper, or either of them, respectively becomes less than the proportional share or interest of any other proprietor thereof, exclusive of the printer and the publisher; (b) whenever and so often as any printer, publisher or proprietor named in any declaration or the person conducting the actual printing of the newspaper named in any declaration , is changed or changes his place of a bode; (c) whenever and so often as the title of any newspaper, or the printing office, or the place of publication thereof, is changed; (d) whenever in any case, or on any occasion, or for any purpose, the Chief Executive Officer require such declaration to be made, signed and delivered, and causes notice in writing for that purpose to be served on any person or to be left at any place mentioned in the last preceding declaration delivered, as being a printer, publisher or proprietor of such newspaper, or as being the place of printing or any such respectively. (4) Every such declaration shall be made before the Chief Executive Officer who is hereby severally and respectively authorised to take and receive such declaration. (5) Every person who knowingly and wilfully signs any such declaration, (a) in which is inserted or set forth the name, addition or place of abode of any person as a proprietor, publisher, printer or conductor of 12 any newspaper to which the declaration relates who is not a proprietor, printer or publisher thereof; (b) from which is omitted the name, addition or place of abode of any proprietor, publisher, printer or conductor of the actual printing of such newspaper contrary to the true meaning (c) in which any matter or thing is required by this Part to be set forth, is set forth otherwise than according to the truth; or (d) from which any matter or thing required by this Part to be truly set forth is entirely omitted, commits a misdemeanour.