materials. The same shall be applicable to the agencies that transport and
distribute the clips of the press prints to the applicants.
Article 53:
The license granted to the advertising agencies for working in Sultanate
of Oman requires that such agencies shall be in form of Oman joint stock
companies and with capitals not less than the capital of the daily journal.
The provisions of the present chapter apply thereon.
Article 54:
The Minister of Information may by resolution exempt the newspapers
and publications issued by clubs and cooperative associations from all or
part of the conditions stipulated in the present chapter, upon requests by
the Government authorities in charge of such clubs and associations.
Article 55:
Any who breaches the provisions of the present chapter shall be punished
by imprisonment of maximum two years or by a fine of maximum two
thousand Omani Riyals or by both penalties.
CHAPTER SIX
REPLIES & RECTIFICATIONS
Article 56:
The responsible editor-in-chief shall upon request of the concerned
parties, must publish in the first issue after the receipt of rectification of
the journal an in the same place of the published article or the portion to
be rectified, the rectification of any mentioned facts and the previous
published statements in the journal, free of charge, provided the
rectification does not exceed the double size of the article or the news.
Exceeding it, the journal shall be entitled to claim from the concerned
party before such publishing of the extra size on the ground of the
determined advertising tariff.
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