Newspapers (Amendment) Law

Newspapers (Amendment) Law A LAW TO AMEND THE NEWSPAPERS ORDINANCE. BE it enacted by the National State Assembly of the Republic of Sri Lanka as follows: – Short title and date of operation. 1. This Law may be cited as the Newspapers (Amendment) Law, No, 5 of 1976, and shall come into to operation on such date as the Minister may appoint by Order published in the Gazette. Amendment of section 7 of Chapter 180, 2. Section 7 of the Newspapers Ordinance is hereby amended as follows: – (a) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section; (b) in the renumbered subsection (1), by the deletion of the words ” and such printer or publisher shall be entitled to demand and receive once in every month from the Registrar of Books and Newspapers the ordinary price of the newspapers delivered or caused to be delivered by him at the office of the Registrar of Books and Newspapers;”; and : (c) by the addition, immediately after the renumbered subsection (1), of the following new subsection,:- ” (2) In addition to the signed copies of newspapers required to be furnished by the printer or publisher of every newspaper under subsection. (1), such printer or publisher shall also at the same time deliver or cause to be delivered at the office of the Registrar of Books and Newspapers an additional unsigned copy of every such newspaper, and such ” Registrar shall , upon receipt of such unsigned copy , transmit it to the Ceylon National Library Services Board “. Amendment of section 21 (4) of Law No. 48. of 1973. 3. The National Archives Law, No. 48 of 1978, is hereby amended in subsection (4) of section 21 thereof, as follows: – (a) by the substitution, for the words ” the copy of every newspaper which has been. delivered “, of the words ” the signed copy of every newspaper which has been delivered “; and (b) by the substitution, for the words ” the copy of a newspaper is delivered “, of the words ” the signed copy of a newspaper is delivered ‘.