New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRINTING AND NEWSPAPERS ACT 1973 - SECT 4

4 Provision in respect of printing and publishing newspapers

(1) A person who prints a newspaper shall, at the time of the printing, print on the front or first or last page of the newspaper:

(a) the person’s name or if the person carries on business under a name registered under the Business Names Act 2002 , that name, and the address of the person’s place of business, and

(b) the name and address of the publisher of the newspaper.

Maximum penalty: 4 penalty units.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), no person shall sell, offer for sale, deliver, distribute, affix to any object or structure in a public place, leave in a public place or otherwise expose to public view a newspaper on which the name of the printer or the name under which the printer carries on business, and the address of the printer’s place of business, and the name and address of the publisher, have not been printed on the front or first or last page of the newspaper.

Maximum penalty: 4 penalty units.

(3) It shall be a defence if a person charged with an offence under subsection (2) proves that the newspaper concerned:

(a) was printed before the commencement of this Act, or

(b) was not printed in the State.