materials. The same shall be applicable to the agencies that transport and distribute the clips of the press prints to the applicants. Article 53: The license granted to the advertising agencies for working in Sultanate of Oman requires that such agencies shall be in form of Oman joint stock companies and with capitals not less than the capital of the daily journal. The provisions of the present chapter apply thereon. Article 54: The Minister of Information may by resolution exempt the newspapers and publications issued by clubs and cooperative associations from all or part of the conditions stipulated in the present chapter, upon requests by the Government authorities in charge of such clubs and associations. Article 55: Any who breaches the provisions of the present chapter shall be punished by imprisonment of maximum two years or by a fine of maximum two thousand Omani Riyals or by both penalties. CHAPTER SIX REPLIES & RECTIFICATIONS Article 56: The responsible editor-in-chief shall upon request of the concerned parties, must publish in the first issue after the receipt of rectification of the journal an in the same place of the published article or the portion to be rectified, the rectification of any mentioned facts and the previous published statements in the journal, free of charge, provided the rectification does not exceed the double size of the article or the news. Exceeding it, the journal shall be entitled to claim from the concerned party before such publishing of the extra size on the ground of the determined advertising tariff. 14