Printers to give notice, penalty for neglect

(1) Every person having any printing press or types for printing shall cause a notice thereof, signed in the presence of and attested by one witness, to be delivered to the appropriate officer, designated by the Chief Executive Officer, of the district where it is intended to be used. (2) Every appropriate officer receiving such notice is authorised and required to grant a certificate and to file such notice and transmit an attested copy thereof to the Chief (3) Every person who, not having delivered such notice and obtained a certificate as mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, keeps or uses any printing press or types for printing, or having delivered the notice and obtained such certificate, uses any printing press or types for printing in any other place than the places expressed in the notice, commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. The 6 printing presses and types for printing so kept or used without notice delivered and certificate obtained, or elsewhere than at the places expressed in the notice and certificate, shall be forfeited to the use of the Government. (4) In this Act, “Chief Executive Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry to which the subject of newspapers is, for the time being, assigned under the Constitution, Cap. 4, and in the case of the Attorney General’s Ministry, the Solicitor-General.