CAP 268 REGISTRATION OF LOCAL -法律法规

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【法规名称】 CAP 268 REGISTRATION OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS ORDINANCE ...

【法规名称】 CAP 268 REGISTRATION OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS ORDINANCE

【法规编号】 82157 什么是编号？

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CAP 268 REGISTRATION OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS ORDINANCE

　　To provide for the registration of local newspapers and news agencies and the licensing of newspaper distributors and for matters connected therewith.
　　
　　(Replaced 15 of 1987 s. 2)
　　
　　[1 July 1951] G.N.A. 114 of 1951
　　
　　(Originally 15 of 1951)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 1 Short title
　　
　　This Ordinance may be cited as the Registration of Local Newspapers Ordinance.
　　
　　(Amended 15 of 1987 s. 3)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 2 Interpretation
　　
　　Remarks:
　　
　　Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 34 of 1999 s. 3
　　
　　In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
　　
　　"address" (地址) in the case of an individual means his residence or usual place of business, and in the case of a corporation means the head office of such corporation within Hong Kong; (Amended 15 of 1987 s. 4)
　　
　　"contravene" (违反) includes a failure to comply;
　　
　　"editor" (编辑) means the chief editor if there are more editors than one, and includes any person acting as chief editor or performing any of the usual functions of a chief editor;
　　
　　"local newspaper" (本地报刊) means a newspaper printed or produced in Hong Kong; (Replaced 15 of 1987 s. 4)
　　
　　"newspaper" (报刊) means any paper or other publication and any supplement thereto available to the general public which-
　　
　　(a) contains news, intelligence, occurrences or any remarks, observations or comments in relation to such news, intelligence, or occurrences or to any other matter of public interest; and
　　
　　(b) is printed or produced for sale or free distribution and published either periodically (whether half-yearly, quarterly, monthly, fortnightly, weekly, daily or otherwise) or in parts or numbers at intervals not exceeding 6 months; and
　　
　　(c) does not comprise exclusively any item or items specified in the Schedule; (Replaced 15 of 1987 s. 4)"printed document" (印刷文件) includes every piece of paper, cloth or other similar material, bearing any words, pictures or signs which were or appear to have been wholly or partly produced by any mechanical, electrical or other copying process in Hong Kong and the collection of such pieces of paper, cloth or other material in any bound or other permanent form but does not include-
　　
　　(a) any document solely intended and solely used for a bona fide and ordinary commercial, professional, social or administrative purpose; or
　　
　　(b) any other document issued or used by any public body; (Replaced 15 of 1987 s. 4. Amended 51 of 1988 s. 2)"proprietor" (东主) includes lessee;
　　
　　"public body" (公共机构) has the same meaning as it has in the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (Cap 201); (Added 51 of 1988 s. 2)
　　
　　"Registrar" (注册主任) means such officer as may be appointed by the Chief Executive to act as registrar of newspapers, and includes any person appointed by the Chief Executive to act as deputy registrar of newspapers. (Amended 34 of 1999 s. 3)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 3 (Repealed 15 of 1987 s. 5)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 4 (Repealed 15 of 1987 s. 5)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 5 (Repealed 15 of 1987 s. 5)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 6 (Repealed 15 of 1987 s. 5)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 7 Registration of local newspapers
　　
　　(1) Every local newspaper shall be registered in accordance with regulations made under section 18.
　　
　　(1A) No local newspaper shall be registered under subsection (1) by a name which is identical with the name by which another local newspaper is already registered. (Added 51 of 1988 s. 3)
　　
　　(2) The proprietor of any local newspaper may at any time give notice to the Registrar that he desires the registration of that local newspaper to cease and the Registrar shall, on the receipt of such notice, cancel the registration of that local newspaper which shall cease to be registered from the date of such cancellation.
　　
　　(Replaced 15 of 1987 s. 6)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 8 (Repealed 15 of 1987 s. 7)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 9 (Repealed 15 of 1987 s. 7)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 10 (Repealed 15 of 1987 s. 7)
　　
　　Cap 268 s 11 Unlawful to furnish incorrect particulars
　　
　　Where any particular is by this Ordinance or by any regulation made thereunder required to be furnished and any particular furnished by way of compliance with such requirement is incorrect, the person who certified the correctness of such particular shall be deemed to have committed an offence against this Ordinance unless he proves-
　　
　　(a) that he believed that the particular furnished was correct; and
　　
　　(b) that he could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence have discovered its incorrectness.
　　
　　Cap 268 s 12 Certified extract from local newspaper register to be admissible in evidence
　　
　　In any proceedings whatsoever against the proprietor, printer, publisher or editor of any local newspaper, it shall be lawful for the complainant or plaintiff to put in any entry in or certified extract from any register of local newspapers kept by the Registrar in accordance with regulations made under section 18, either- (Amended 15 of 1987 s. 8)
　　
　　(a) as evidence of the truth of the matters stated in such entry or extract; or
　　
　　(b) as evidence that the particulars appearing in such entry or extract were furnished and certified by the informant by whom they purport to have been furnished and certified.

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