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CAP. 206
Newspaper and Printing Presses
2002 Ed.
An Act for the licensing of newspaper companies and for matters
connected therewith.
[1st January 1975]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
“chief editor” includes the executive editor, the managing editor
and any other person who controls the policy of a newspaper;
“company” means a company incorporated or registered under
the Companies Act (Cap. 50) or under any corresponding
previous written law;
“declared foreign newspaper” means any newspaper published
outside Singapore which has been declared by the Minister
under section 24(1) to be engaging in the domestic politics of
Singapore;
“document” means any printed newspaper or sheet of paper or
other material and any printed pamphlet, leaflet, map, chart
and plan, and includes any documents bound together;
“journalist” includes an editor, a sub‑editor, an editorial writer, a
reporter and any other person whose business it is to edit or
write for a newspaper;
“newspaper” means any publication containing news,
intelligence, reports of occurrences, or any remarks,
observations or comments, in relation to such news,
intelligence, reports of occurrences, or to any other matter
of public interest, printed in any language and published for
sale or free distribution at regular intervals or otherwise, but
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