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PRINTED DOCUMENTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970

PRINTED DOCUMENTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make provision for obtaining information with respect to
the printing of certain documents and for related purposes.
[17th December 1970]
Provisions in respect of certain printed documents.

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.

PRINTED DOCUMENTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 2
Citation and commencement.

2.(1) This Act may be cited as the Printed Documents Act (Northern
Ireland) 1970.

(2) Commencement