Kings Regulations made under Article 209 and issued under Article 212 of "The China Order-in-Council, 1925."
1. These Regulations are declared to be urgent.
2. No British Subject or Corporation shall print or publish or cause to be printed or published, or be in anywise concerned with the printing or publishing of, any newspaper, pamphlet or other publication in any language, other than the English language, without the written consent lof His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador in China first had and obtained.
3. Such consent as aforesaid shall be within the absolute discretion of His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador and in granting the same he may impose such conditions as he shall, in his absolute discretion, think fit.
4. If any British Subject or Corporation shall contravene the provisions of Article two hereof, or any condition imposed as aforesaid, such British Subject or Corporation and every director, manager, secretary and other officer of such Corporation who is knowingly a party thereto, shall be guilty of an offence, and upon convietion shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £50 or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding three months, or both.
5. In any prosecution of a director, manager or secretary or other officer of any Corporation which shall be guilty of an offence under Article four hereof, proof that the offence was committed without his knowledge or consent shall lie upon the accused.
6. These Regulations may be cited las "The Licensing of Newspapers Regulations 1938."
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