CHAPTER
343
PRINTING OF PAPERS AND BOOKS |
ARRANGEMENT OF
SECTIONS |
SECTION |
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Name of printer to be printed on papers and
books. |
Printers to keep copy of paper and write name of
employer thereon. |
Publishing papers or books containing
treasonable, etc., or defamatory matter. |
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Fiat of Attorney-General. |
CHAPTER 343 |
PRINTING OF PAPERS
AND BOOKS |
An Act to
regulate the printing of papers and books. | 25 of 1909
5 of 1987 |
[Assent 23rd August,
1909]
[Commencement 1st January, 1910] |
1. This Act may be cited as the Printing of Papers and
Books Act. | Short title. |
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- | Interpretation. |
"paper"
includes handbills, circulars, notices, newspapers and printed matter of every
description, but does not include the printing of the name, or the name and
address, or business or profession, or the telephonic or telegraphic address of
any person, and the articles in which he deals, or papers for the sale of real
or personal property by auction or otherwise, or programmes or other papers
relating to any entertainment, or business advertisements; |
"print"
includes any mechanical mode of reproduction. |
3. Every person who shall print in The Bahamas any
paper or book whatsoever which shall be meant to be published or dispersed, and
who shall fail to print upon the front of every such paper, if the same shall
be printed on one side only, or upon the first or last leaf of every paper or
book which shall consist of more than one leaf, in legible characters, his name
and usual place of abode or business, or if he is the publisher of a newspaper
the name of such newspaper and the name of the street and place where it is
printed, and every person who shall print, publish or disperse, or cause to be
printed, published or dispersed or assist in printing, publishing or dispersing
any printed paper or book on which the name and place of abode or business of
the person printing the same, or, if he is the publisher of a newspaper, the
name of such newspaper and the name of the street and place where it is
printed, shall not be printed as aforesaid, shall be liable to a
penalty of five hundred dollars. | Name of printer to be printed on papers and books. |
4. (1) Every person who shall print in The Bahamas any
paper which shall be meant to be published or dispersed shall carefully
preserve and keep one copy (at least) of every paper so printed by him, on
which he shall write, or cause to be written or printed in legible characters,
the name and place of abode or business of the person by whom he shall be
employed to print the same, and shall keep or preserve such copy for the space
of one year after the printing thereof and shall produce and show the same to any
magistrate within the said space of one year on being served with notice in
writing requiring him to produce the same under the hand and seal of such
magistrate countersigned by the Attorney-General. | Printers to keep copy of paper and write name of
employer thereon. |
(2) Every person
failing to comply with any of the provisions of
subsection (1) of this section shall be liable to a penalty of eighty dollars. |
5. Every person who shall within The Bahamas publish or
disperse, or cause to be published or dispersed, or assist in publishing or
dispersing any paper or book containing any drawing, painting, print,
photograph or representation of any kind of a treasonable, seditious,
blasphemous, immoral, indecent or obscene character, shall be liable to a
penalty of one thousand dollars, or, if containing any defamatory matter
relating to any other person, to a penalty of two hundred and
fifty dollars. | Publishing papers or books containing treasonable,
etc., or defamatory matter. |
6. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to papers
and books printed by the authority of the Government of The Bahamas or either
House of Parliament. | Government papers. |
7. All penalties imposed by this Act may be recovered
summarily. | Penalties. |
8. No person shall be prosecuted for any offence
against this Act except upon the fiat of the Attorney-General. | Fiat of Attorney-General. |