shall decide granting such license within two weeks of the application date. Article 12: The typography, shall before publishing any print, must obtain from the Ministry of Information a prior permission licensing the print. Article 13: The typography shall be prohibited from publishing printings of which the circulation is forbidden. He is further prohibited from publishing unauthorized periodical prints that the authorization of which was cancelled or modified or stopped from release. Article 14: The provisions of this chapter of the law shall be applicable to the publishing houses. Article 15: Any breach of the provisions of the articles mentioned above shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred Omani Riyals, or by both penalties with the possibility temporarily or permanently closing down the printing establishment. CHAPTER THREE The circulation of prints Article 16: No one is allowed to exercise the profession of importing, selling, distributing, publication of prints, establishing a press house or a distribution house or a Bookshop before obtaining the relevant license from the competent authority at the Ministry of Information, comprising the required data that determined by the executive regulations of the present law. 6