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PRINTED DOCUMENTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 1

1.(1) Subject to subsection (3), every person who prints any document which is
or is intended to be publicly sold, distributed or displayed shall

(a)at the time of or within twenty-four hours after printing such document,
print or write on at least one copy of such document the name and address of
the person for whom or on whose instructions such document was printed; and

(b)retain, for six months from the date on which such document was printed, a
copy of such document on which the said name and address is printed or written
as aforesaid; and

(c)upon the request of a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary at any
reasonable time during the said period of six months, produce for the
inspection of such member the said copy of such document so retained as
aforesaid; and

(d)at the time of such printing, print his name and the address of his place
of business on the front or first or last page of the document.

(2) Every person who acts in contravention of any of the provisions of
subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary
conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding
fifty pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to
both such fine and imprisonment and, in the case of a second or any subsequent
offence, to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and
imprisonment.

(3) Nothing in subsection (1) applies to any newspaper, magazine or other
periodical publication which is printed by the proprietor thereof on his own
premises or to any documents which genuinely purport to be any of the
following:

(a)currency notes, bank notes, bills of exchange, promissory notes, cheques,
receipts or other financial or commercial documents, including auction bills
and bills for the letting of lands;

(b)writs, orders, summonses, warrants, affidavits, and other documents for the
purposes of or for use in any lawful court or tribunal;

(c)any document printed by order of a government department, [the Assembly]
either House of Parliament or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, a
Minister of the Crown, or any public officer in the execution of his duties as
such or printed by or for the purposes of any local or public authority; or

(d)Christmas cards or cards conveying a greeting or invitation in a lawful
form and intended for delivery from one person to another; or

(e)any document which the Minister of Home Affairs may by order made subject
to affirmative resolution declare to be a document to which this section does
not apply.

(4) In this section "document" includes a book, a newspaper, magazine, or
other periodical publication, as well as a pamphlet, leaflet, circular or
advertisement and "printing" includes any mode of representing or reproducing
in a document any words, symbols or pictures in any visible form.

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