section 16
Penalty for not delivering books or not supplying printer with maps
The Press or Pustak Ragistrikaran Adhiniyam, 1867[Content as per original Act to be inserted] If any printer of any such book as is referred to in section 9 of this Act, shall neglect to deliver copies of the same in pursuance of that section, he shall for every such default forfeit to the Government such sum not exceeding Rs. 50 as a Magistrate having jurisdiction in the place where the book was printed may, on the application of the officer to whom the copies should have been delivered or of any person authorised by that officer in this behalf, determine to be in the circumstances a reasonable penalty for the default, and, in addition to such sum, such further sum as the Magistrate may determine to be the value of the copies which the printer ought to have delivered. If any publisher or other person employing any printer shall neglect to supply him, in the manner required in the second paragraph of section 9 of this Act, with the maps, prints or engravings which may be necessary to enable the printer to comply with the provisions of that section, such publisher or other person shall for every such default forfeit to the Government such sum not exceeding Rs. 50 as the aforesaid Magistrate may, on such application as aforesaid, determine to be in the circumstances a reasonable penalty for the default, and, in addition to such sum, such further sum as the Magistrate may determine to be the value of the maps, prints or engravings which such publisher or other person ought to have supplied.
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