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Press Act, 1910 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1910

.....for an application, within two months of the date of such declaration to a special bench of three Judges of the High Court, on the question of fact whether the matter directed to is or is not of the description defined in the Bill. If the High Court finds that it is not of that description, it must cancel the order of forfeiture. All other legal proceedings for action taken under the Bill are barred. Subsidiary matters provided for in the Bill are the search for and seizure under special warrant of the Magistrate of property declared forfeit under the Bill; for the submission by the printer of every newspaper to such officer as the Local Government may direct of two copies of each issue of his paper on pain of a penalty of Rs. 50 for each default; the return of security deposited by a printer or a publisher, when such person ceases to keep a printing-press or, being a publisher, makes a declaration under Section 8 of the Press and Registration of Books Act of 1867and lastly the saving of prosecutions under any other law. The following report of the Select Committee on the Bill to provide for the better control of the Press, was presented to the Council of the Governor-.....