Question

Write short notes to show what you know about:
Vernacular press act

Answer 1

The main aim of the act is to control the printing and circulation of seditious material. It provides the govt extensive rights to censor report and editorial in vernacular press.

Answer 2

The Vernacular Press Act: Modelled on the Irish Press Laws, it was passed in 1878. This law gave the government tyrannical rights to censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press. If a seditious report was published and the newspaper did not heed to an initial warning, then the press was seized and the printing machinery confiscated.