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Section 2.2This Act shall come into force as from the day following the
date of its publication in the Government Gazette.
Section 3.The followings shall be repealed:
(1) Printing Act, B.E. 2484 (1941);
(2) Printing Act (No.2), B.E. 2485 (1942);
(3) Printing Act (No.3), B.E. 2489 (1946);
(4) Order of the State Reformation Council, No.5 dated 6th October B.E.
2519 (1976);
(5) Order of the State Reformation Council, No. 36 dated 21st October
B.E. 2519 (1976).
Section 4. In this Act:
“to print” means to make an alphabet, a mark, a figure, a diagram or an
image appear by any mean;
“printed matter” means any notebook, book, sheet of paper or object
printed in numerous copies;
“newspaper” means a printed matter which has the same name thereon
and is issued or intended to be issued in continuing sequences, irrespective of whether
the time interval is determined or whether there are continuous texts, and shall include
a magazine, a journal and a similar printed matter which is called with other name;
“printer” means a person in charge of or responsible for printing;
“publisher” means a person responsible for popularising a printed matter
by any mean, whether by sale or free distribution;
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Published in the Government Gazette, Vol. 124, Part 93a, Page 1, dated 18th
December B.E. 2550 (2007).
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