section 8
New declaration by persons who have signed declaration and subsequently ceased to be printers or publishers
The Press or Pustak Ragistrikaran Adhiniyam, 1867[If any person who has made a declaration under section 5 with respect to any newspaper and been authenticated by a Magistrate under section 6 subsequently 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 sign the following declaration in duplicate: 'I, A.B., declare that I have ceased to be the printer or publisher or printer and publisher of the newspaper titled ....................................'.] Authenticated and filing— Every original copy of the aforesaid declaration shall be authenticated by the signature and seal of that Magistrate before whom the aforesaid declaration is made and an original copy of the aforesaid declaration shall be filed along with each original copy of the previously made declaration. Inspection and copies of declaration— Any person applying shall be entitled to inspect each original copy of the aforesaid declaration on payment of a fee of one rupee and the applying person shall be provided a copy of the aforesaid original declaration certified by the seal of the Court in whose custody the original copy is, on payment of a fee of two rupees. Preservation of declaration as evidence— In all such cases where a copy of the previously authenticated declaration can be filed in court, it shall be sufficient that an authenticated copy of the aforesaid declaration be filed in court and this declaration shall not be taken in the form of evidence that the declarant was the printer or publisher of the newspaper mentioned therein, in any period after the date of the aforesaid declaration. [A copy of the aforesaid declaration authenticated by the seal of the Magistrate shall be sent to the Press Registrar.]
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