Printing Presses And Publications Act

The printing presses and publications act 1984 is a malaysian statute governing publishing and the usage of printing presses in malaysia.

Printing presses and publications act. The government is going to study if the 1984 printing presses and publications act should be amended to include electronic and internet media. 1 in this act unless the context otherwise requires. The printing presses and publications act was first introduced by the british colonial government as the printing ordinance of 1948 at the beginning of the state of emergency in order to counteract communist activities seen as a threat to the establishment. The act required all newspapers and printing presses to obtain an annual publishing licence.

Printing presses and publications act 1984 an act to regulate the use of printing presses and the printing importation production reproduction publishing and distribution of publications and for matters connected therewith. The printing presses and publications act 1984 is a malaysian statute governing the usage of printing presses and the printing importation production reproduction publishing and distribution of publications in malaysia. Chief editor includes the executive editor the managing editor and any other person who controls the policy of a newspaper. Printing presses and publications act 1984 governs the publishing and usage of printing presses in malaysia.

Printing presses and publications act 1984 an act to regulate the use of printing presses and the printing importation production reproduction publishing and distribution of publications and for matters connected therewith. It replaced the printing presses act 1948 and the control of imported publications act 1958 revised 1972. Other than that in 1984 the pppa was amended. The act provides that it is a criminal offense to possess or use a printing press without a licence granted by the home affairs minister.

In 1971 the ordinance was revised after the race riots of 1969 and became the printing presses and publications act pppa. It replaced the printing presses act 1948 and the control of imported publications act 1958. This act may be cited as the newspaper and printing presses act. A to any person a permit to print and publish a newspaper in malaysia.

1 september 1984 p u. Proposed amendments to the printing presses and publications act 28 january 2011 transparency international malaysia ti m has consistently called for the repeal or the drastic curbing of the printing presses and publications act as other existing laws are more than adequate to curb wrongful acts of the media. These new forms of media were not around when the act.