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NEWSPAPER LIBEL AND REGISTRATION ACT 1881 - SECT 12

Penalty for wilful misrepresentation in or omission from return.

12. If any person shall knowingly and wilfully make or cause to be made any
return by this Act required or permitted to be made in which shall be inserted
or set forth the name of any person as a proprietor of a newspaper who shall
not be a proprietor thereof, or in which there shall be any misrepresentation,
or from which there shall be any omission in respect of any of the particulars
by this Act required to be contained therein whereby such return shall be
misleading, or if any proprietor of a newspaper shall knowingly and wilfully
permit any such return to be made which shall be misleading as to any of the
particulars with reference to his own name, occupation, place of business (if
any), or place of residence, then and in every such case every such offender
being convicted thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred
pounds.

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