PRINTED PUBLICATIONS ACT as amended 1st August 2006
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CHAPTER 25:14
PRINTED PUBLICATIONS ACT
Acts 12/1975, 37/1977 (s. 26), 11/1985, 22/2001 (s. 4); R.G.N 1135/1975.
AN ACT to consolidate and amend the law relating to the printing and publication of books, newspapers, periodicals
and other printed publications and the preservation of books, newspapers, periodicals and other printed public ations
published in Zimbabwe.
[Date of commencement: 14th March, 1975.]
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the Printed Publications Act
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(ii) courts of law; or
(iii) statutory bodies established by or under any law
or an Order in Council made in pursuance of the
Rhodesia and Nyasaland Act, 1963, of the United Kingdom; or
(iv) trade or business,
as may be specified in such notice; or
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Interpretation
(1) In this Act—
“book” includes—
(a) a newspaper, periodical or other printed publication
published at regular or irregular intervals; and
(b) every part or division of a book, pamphlet, sheet of
printing, map, plan, chart or table separately published;
“Minister” means the Minister of Home Affairs or any
other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time,
assign the administration of this Act.
(2) Expressions referring to printing shall in this Act be
construed as including references to any other means of
representing or reproducing words or figures in visible form.
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Act not to extend to parliamentary papers
Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to or be construed as extending to any report, minutes or other book or
paper printed or published by the order or under the authority of Parliament for the use of Parliament.
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Particulars to be set out in books printed or
published in Zimbabwe
(1) Each book printed or published in Zimbabwe shall
bear an imprint legibly setting out—
(a) the full and correct name of the printer concerned and
the place where such book was printed; and
(b) the full and correct name of the publisher concerned
and his place of business; and
(c) the year of publication of such book.
(2) A person who knowingly—
(a) prints or publishes; or
(b) causes to be printed or published;
a book which does not bear an imprint referred to in subsection (1) shall, subject to subsection (3), be guilty of an
offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level four or to
imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to
both such fine and such imprisonment.
(3) The Minister may—
(a) by statutory instrument exempt from the requirements
of subsection (1) such classes of books used for the
purposes of—
(i) the State; or
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