Section 36, The Public Order Act, 1965

(1) Where any person convicted of an offence under sections 26, 27, 32 or 33 or of an attempt or a conspiracy tocommit or of complicity in, any such offences, is a publisher, the Court shall forthwith send a report of such a case to the Governor-General. (2) The Governor-General may either of his own motion or on the recommendation of the Court if in his opinion the interest of public order, public safety, public defence or public morality so requires, by order prohibit the publication of the newspaper in which the defamatory, seditious or false matter appears, for any period not exceeding six months. (3) Any person who fails to comply with an order made by the Governor-General under subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding eighteen months. (4) It shall be an offence to begin or continue to publish any newspaper under the substantial management of any publisher in respect of whose newspaper an Order had been made under subsection (2) unless the order is no longer in force and any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on conviction to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding eighteen months. (5) For the purpose of this section— “publisher” means any printer, editor or proprietor of a newspaper and every agent or employee or other person acting on the instructions of any such editor or proprietor, or any person concerned with the management of a newspaper; “proprietor” includes as well as the sole proprietor of any newspaper, as also in the case of a divided proprietorship the person who as partners or otherwise represent and are responsible for any share or interest in the newspaper as between themselves and the persons in like manner representing or responsible for the other shares or interests therein and no other person; “newspaper” means any paper containing public news or occurrences, or any remarks or observations therein, printed for sale and published periodically or in parts or numbers.