Act No. 305 / 2013 Coll.

Act amending Act No. 46 / 2000 Coll., on Rights and Obligations in the Issue of Periodic Printing and on the Amendment of Certain Other Laws (Press Act), as amended

Valid Law Effective from 01.11.2013
305
THE LAW
of 13 September 2013
amending Act No. 46 / 2000 Coll., on the Rights and Duties in the Issue of Periodic Printing and on the Amendment of Certain Other Laws (Press Act), as amended
Parliament has decided on this law of the Czech Republic:
Čl. I
Act No. 46 / 2000 Coll., on the Rights and Obligations in the Issue of Periodic Printing and on the Amendment of Certain Other Laws (Printing Act), as amended by Act No. 302 / 2000 Coll., Act No. 320 / 2002 Coll., Act No. 227 / 2009 Coll., Act No. 281 / 2009 Coll. and Act No. 142 / 2012 Coll., is amended as follows:
1. In Article 3, at the end of point (f), the dot is replaced by a comma and the following point (g) is added, including footnote 9:
"(g) by means of the periodic printing of a local self-government unit, a periodical print of which the municipality, region or capital of Prague or its urban part (hereinafter referred to as the" territorial self-government unit ") or a legal person established or established by a local or jointly by a local or local authority unit or a legal person controlled by a local or local authority body itself or jointly by other local or local authorities pursuant to a specific legislation (9), or a periodical printing, the content, publication and dissemination of which another publisher is provided by a contract with a local authority unit or together with a number of local authorities.
9) § 66a of the Commercial Code. '
2. The following Section 4a is inserted after Section 4:
„§ 4a
Communication in the periodical printing of the self-government unit
The publisher of the periodical printing of the local self-government unit shall provide objective and balanced information on the local self-government unit and provide adequate space for the publication of a communication expressing the views of the representatives of the local self-government body concerning that local self-government unit. ';
3. in Article 8 (1), the following point (b) is inserted after point (a):
"(b) the indication of the periodic printing of the local self-governing unit, if it is the periodic printing of the local self-governing unit,"
Points (b) to (g) shall be renumbered (c) to (h).
4. In Section 9 (2), the words "and by supplying regional mutations to the State Technical Library in Prague 'are deleted.
5. The following Section 11a is inserted after Section 11:
„§ 11a
Additional information
(1) The member of the local authorities may request additional information from the publisher if the publisher of the periodical printing of the local authorities
(a) it shall not publish a communication pursuant to Article 4a for a period of 3 months from the date of service of that communication to the publisher;
(b) it shall not publish a notice pursuant to Paragraph 4a in the next edition in the case of the periodical printing of the local authority, unless it is issued to the publisher within 3 months of the date of service of that communication; or
(c) publish a communication pursuant to § 4a, but a member of the council will consider that the publisher has not given him adequate space under § 4a.
The publisher is obliged to publish additional information in the periodical printing of a self-government unit in which he has not published or provided adequate space for communication pursuant to § 4a.
(2) A member of the board of a local authority at whose request additional information has been published by the publisher under this Act may not require the publication of additional information in addition to that additional information. "
6. The following Section 15a is inserted after Section 15:
„§ 15a
(1) The request for publication of supplementary information shall be in writing and shall contain a draft text containing additional information to be published.
(2) The request for publication of supplementary information shall be received by the publisher no later than 3 months
(a) from the expired period referred to in Article 11a (1) (a);
(b) from the date on which the notification pursuant to Paragraph 4a was to be published in the next issue of the periodical printing of a self-government unit which is not issued within 3 months; or
(c) from the date on which the notice referred to in Article 4a was published in the periodical printing of the local authority, but the member of the council considers that the publisher has not given him adequate space under Article 4a;
otherwise the right to publish supplementary information shall cease to exist.
(3) Paragraphs 13 to 15, with the exception of Articles 15 (1) (c) and 15 (2) and (3), shall apply mutatis mutandis to the publication of supplementary information. The publisher shall indicate the additional information published by the words "additional information." '
Čl. II
Efficacy
That law shall take effect on the first day of the calendar month following its publication.
Zeman v. r.
Rusnok v. r.

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Regulation Information

CitationAct No. 305 / 2013 Coll., amending Act No. 46 / 2000 Coll., on the Rights and Obligations in the Issue of Periodic Printing and on the Amendment of Certain Other Laws (Printing Act), as amended
Regulation TypeLaw
Author-
CollectionCode of Laws
Date of Promulgation02.10.2013
Effective from01.11.2013
Effective until-
Status Valid
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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