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.
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