Section 8:
New declaration by persons who have signed a declaration and subsequently ceased to be printers or publishers.
2[If any person has subscribed to any declaration in respect of a newspaper
under section 5 and the declaration has been authenticated by a Magistrate under section 6 and
subsequently that person ceases to be the printer or publisher of the newspaper mentioned in such
declaration, he shall appear before any District, Presidency or Sub-divisional Magistrate, and make and
subscribe in duplicate the following declaration:--
"I, A. B., declare that I have ceased to be the printer or publisher or printer and publisher of the
newspaper entitled "--.]
Authentication and filing.--Each original of the latter declaration shall be authenticated by the
signature and seal of the Magistrate before whom the said latter declaration shall have been made, and
one original of the said latter declaration shall be filed alongwith each original of the former declaration.
Inspection and supply of copies.--The Officer-in-charge of each original of the latter declaration
shall allow any person applying to inspect that original on payment of a fee of one rupee, and shall give to
any person applying a copy of the said latter declaration, attested by the seal of the Court having custody
of the original, on payment of a fee of two rupees.
Putting copy in evidence.--In all trials in which a copy, attested as is aforesaid, of the former
declaration shall have been put in evidence, it shall be lawful to put in evidence a copy, attested as is
aforesaid, of the latter declaration, and the former declaration shall not be taken to be evidence that the
declaration was, at any period subsequent to the date of the latter declaration, printer or publisher of the
1[newspaper] therein mentioned.
3[A copy of the latter declaration attested by the official seal of the Magistrate shall be forwarded to
the Press Registrar.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 14 of 1922, s. 3 and the First Schedule, ibid., for "periodical work".
2. Subs. by Act 55 of 1955, s. 8, for the first paragraph (w.e.f. 1-7-1956).
3. Ins. by s. 8, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-7-1956).