§ Mr. NAYLORasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the growing practice of attaching imprints to printed matter that do not bear the name of the actual printer but of the agent who is represented as being the printer; and whether he will take steps to ensure that the law relating to imprints is enforced in every respect?
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERALI have been asked to reply. The provisions of the Newspapers, Printers and Reading Rooms Repeal Act, 1869, require that, the actual name of the printer, together with particulars of his usual place of abode or business, shall be printed on every paper or book to which the Act applies. Failure to comply with the provisions of the Statute render the printer, publisher and disperser, and those who assist them, liable to a penalty of for every copy of the paper or book so printed, published or dispersed. Penalties are recovered in the name of the Attorney-General, and I shall certainly enforce the law in any case where I am satisfied that the facts warrant the institution of proceedings.