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Conditions to be satisfied by a
journalist and an editor in chief
25.(1) A journalist, before practising the profession, shall be required to be
enrolled in the Journalists Roll, at the Council.
(2) An editor in chief of a newspaper shall be required :(a) to be a Sudanese, whose age shall not be less than thirty five
years;
(b) to have practised the press work professionally, for a period, not
less than ten years;
(c) to be in possession of a university qualification, or a diploma in
the press field;
(d) to be full time devoted to the press work;
(3) The Council may exclude a candidate for the editing in chief of a
newspaper, from the above conditions of experience and university
qualification, where he satisfies the distinguished typical qualifications,
or experiences.
(4) The Council may exclude the candidates for editing in chief of any
printed material, issued by the press institution, from the provisions of
sub-section 2 (a) ,(b) and (c)above .
(5) He shall have been convicted of an offence inconsistent with honor ,
honesty or contravention of the provisions of this Act .
The responsibility of an editor in chief
26.
An editor in chief shall be the first person responsible for the good
performance of editing of the newspaper, and shall also be responsible,
for all what is published in the newspaper, as an actual perpetrator of the
contraventions and offences, committed by the newspaper, without
prejudice to the criminal responsibility, or any other responsibility of the
writer, the one who placed the drawing, the publisher, the printer or
distributor; and the responsibility, in such case, shall be joint .