Post Office Act, 1908

Registration of newspapers at Post Office.

21.(1) The proprietor or printer of any newspaper within the description aforesaid, and the proprietor or printer of any publication which, regard being had to the proportion of advertisements to other matter therein, is not within the description aforesaid, but which was stamped as a newspaper before the fifteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, may register it at the General Post Office in London, at such time in each year and in such form and with such particulars as the Postmaster-General directs, paying on each registration such fee not exceeding five shillings as Post Office regulations direct.

(2) The Postmaster-General may from time to time revise the register and remove therefrom any publication not being a newspaper.

(3) The decision of the Postmaster-General on the admission to or removal from the register of a publication shall be final, save that the Treasury may, if they think fit, on the application of any person interested, reverse or modify the decision, and order accordingly.

(4) Any publication for the time being on the register shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed a registered newspaper.