§ Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee, read.
§ Moved, That the House do now resolve itself into Committee.—(The Earl of Craven.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ House in Committee accordingly.
1733§ [The EARL OF DONOUGHMORE in the Chair.]
§ Clause 1:
§ Extension of provisions as to registration of newspapers to newspapers published in British possessions or protectorates. 8 Edw. 7, c. 48.
§ 1. The provisions of the Post Office Act, 1908, relating to the registration of newspapers and registered newspapers shall apply to publications printed and published in a British possession or protectorate as they apply to publications printed and published in the British Islands, and accordingly paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section twenty of the Post Office Act, 1908 (which relates to the publications which may be registered as a newspaper), shall be read as if the words "or in some British possession or protectorate" were inserted after the words "in the British Islands":
§ Provided that the Postmaster General may refuse to register as a newspaper a publication printed and published in a British possession or protectorate, unless arrangements have been made to his satisfaction for maintaining a responsible representative of the publication in the United Kingdom.
§ THE EARL OF CRAVENI move to insert, immediately before the proviso in Clause 1, the words in my Amendment.
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Amendment moved—
Page 1, line 14, after ("Islands") insert ("For the purpose of this provision the expression 'British protectorate' shall be deemed to include the Malay Straits and Cyprus").—(The Earl of Craven.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 1, as amended, agreed to.
§ Remaining clause agreed to.
§ The Report of Amendment to be received on Monday next, and Bill to be printed as amended. (No. 168.)