Each issue of a paper to be delivered to Chief Executive Officer, etc

(1) The printer or publisher of every newspaper shall upon every day on which the same is published, or within six days after, deliver to the Chief Executive Officer at his office in Belmopan one of the papers so published upon each such day, signed by the printer or publisher thereof, in his handwriting, with his name and place of abode. (2) The Chief Executive Officer shall carefully keep and preserve every paper so delivered to him. 18 (3) Every printer or publisher shall be entitled to demand and receive from the Chief Executive Officer once in every month the amount of the ordinary price of the newspapers so (4) Every printer and publisher of such newspaper who neglects to deliver one such newspaper in the manner directed under subsection (1) of this section, shall for every such neglect respectively, forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars. (5) Where any person makes application to the Chief Executive Officer in order that the newspaper signed by the printer or publisher may be produced in evidence in any proceeding, civil or criminal, the Chief Executive Officer shall at the expense of the party applying at any time within two years from the publication thereof, either cause the newspaper to be produced in the court in which the same is required to be produced, and at the time when the newspaper is required to be produced, or shall deliver the newspaper to the party applying for it, taking, according to his discretion, reasonable security at the applicant’s expense for the returning of the newspaper to the Chief Executive Officer. (6) If, by reason of the fact that any such newspaper has been previously delivered to any other person for the like purpose, it cannot be produced at the time required, or be delivered according to such application, the Chief Executive Officer shall cause the newspaper to be produced, or shall deliver it as soon as he is enabled to do so.