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“editor” means a person responsible for producing and controlling the
contents, texts or images printed in a newspaper, as well as a material or a document
inserted into the newspaper by consent of the editor;
“newspaper proprietor” means a person who owns a newspaper business;
“competent official” means a person appointed by the Minister to perform
the duties under this Act.
Section 5.This Act does not apply to the following printed matters, viz:
(1) printed matters of the Government sector or State agencies;
(2) cards, greeting cards, instruments, printing patterns and reports which
are used normally for personal matters, social affairs, politics, commerce, or printed
matters having a short useful life, such as pamphlets or posters;
(3) notebooks, exercise books or colouring books;
(4) dissertations,lecture documents, academic curricular or other printed
matters of similar nature which are distributed in an educational establishment.
Section 6. The Prime Minister shall have charge and control of the
execution of this Act and shall have the power to appoint competent officials and issue
ministerial regulations for the execution of this Act.
Such ministerial regulations shall come into force upon their publication in
the Government Gazette.
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