Article 57: It is possible to abstain from publishing the rectification in the following cases: 1- If such rectification reaches the journal after the expiry of fourteen days in case the legal claimant resides inside the Sultanate and sixty days if he resides outside the Sultanate for the daily newspapers and the period becomes one month for the legal claimant residing inside the Sultanate and sixty days if he is residing abroad for the magazines and non-daily newspapers. 2- If the journal had already rectified the facts in the same meaning with the same instances or the statements as appeared in the article to be rectified. 3- If the rectification is written in a foreign language other than the language of the article or the news. Article 58: The journal must abstain from publishing the rectification if the contents thereof are in contradiction with the provisions of the present law or of any of its articles. Article 59: Any contravener of the provisions mentioned above shall be punished by imprisonment of maximum two years and by a fine of maximum one thousand Omani Riyals, or by any one of these two penalties. The journal shall be bound to publish the rectification in the form presented by the concerned party. CHAPTER SEVEN The journalist Article 60: Any editor or writer may not work in any journal unless he obtains the license to exercise the profession from the Publishing and Press Committee. The owners of newspapers and the chairmen of the boards of directors of the Press Establishments and news agencies shall abstain from appointing temporarily or permanently in their Press business editors or writers before they obtain such license. 15