Newspaper and Printing Presses (Composition of Offences) Rules 2012

No. S 515

Newspaper and Printing Presses Act

(CHAPTER 206)

Newspaper and Printing Presses
(Composition of Offences)
Rules 2012

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 42(3) of the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act, the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Newspaper and Printing Presses (Composition of Offences) Rules 2012 and shall come into operation on 15th October 2012.

Compoundable offences

2.  The following offences may be compounded by the Minister or any officer authorised by the Minister in accordance with section 42 of the Act:

(a) any offence (other than a continuing offence) under section 8(2), 17(1) or (2), 18(3), 21(9), 24(5), 25(4), 26(5), 28(2) or 33(1) or (3) of the Act;

(b) any offence under section 35 of the Act in connection with any failure to comply with section 3(4), 5(2), 6, 9(1) or (2) or 10(1), (2), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (10), (11), (12), (13) or (14) of the Act;

(c) any offence under section 35 of the Act in connection with any failure to comply with section 23(1) of the Act in respect of the importation for sale or distribution of any offshore newspaper in Singapore.

Made this 11th day of October 2012.

CHAN YENG KIT

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Information,
Communications and the Arts,
Singapore.

[L01.001.011 V9; AG/LLRD/SL/206/2010/3 Vol. 1]