Section 5A: Keepers of printing-presses and printers and publishers of newspapers in Jammu and Kashmir to make and subscribe fresh declarations withinspecified period.

(1) No person who has made and subscribed a declaration in resp ect of any press under section 4 of the Jammu and Kashmir State Press and Publications Act, S. 1989 (Jammu and Kashmir Act No. I of S. 1989) shall keep the press in his possession for the printing of books or papers after the 31st day of December, 1968 u nless before the expiry of that date, he makes and subscribes a fresh declaration in respect of thatpress under section 4 of this Act.

(2)Every person who has subscribed toany declaration in respect of a newspaper under section 5 of the Jammu and Kashmir State Press and Publications Act, S. 1989, Jammu and Kashmir Act, No. I S. 1 shall cease to be the editor, printer or publisher of the newspaper mentioned in such declaration after the 31st day of December, 1968, unless before the expiry of that date he makes and subscribes a fresh declaration in respect of that newspaper under rule (2) of the rules laid down in section 5 of this Act.]