CHAPTER 20:01
PRINTED PUBLICATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Appointment of Registrar

    4.    Register

    5.    Particulars to be registered

    6.    Imprints on publications printed in Botswana

    7.    Copy of publications to be retained by printer

    8.    Exemptions

    9.    Newspapers printed outside Botswana

    10.    Certified copies to be evidence

    11.    Power to seize certain publications and to search premises

    12.    Regulations

    13.    Penalties

Act 15, 1968.

An Act to make provision for the registration of newspapers, for the imposition of certain duties on printers and publishers, and for matters incidental thereto and connected therewith.

[Date of Commencement: 8th March, 1968]

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Printed Publications Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    "editor" includes the person or persons actually and finally responsible for the collation or inclusion in any newspaper of the contents thereof, whether such person or persons are expressly employed for such purposes or not;

    "newspaper" means any publication containing news, intelligence, reports of occurrences, or any remarks, observations or comments in relation to such news, intelligence or occurrences or to any other matters of public interest or any comments of a political nature relating to Botswana or persons or events therein, which is printed or published for sale or free distribution at regular or irregular intervals within Botswana;

    "printed" means produced by any process of reproduction;

    "publication" means a document which is or is intended to be published;

    "published" means issued for distribution, by sale or otherwise, to the public or any section thereof;

    "Register" means the Register of Newspapers established under section 4;

    "Registrar" means the Registrar of Newspapers appointed under section 3.

3.    Appointment of Registrar

    The Minister shall, by notice published in the Gazette, appoint a public officer to be Registrar of Newspapers for the purposes of this Act.