(a) The printers and publishers who wish to perform the printing and publishing enterprise shall apply for the recognition of their businesses to the Ministry with complete and correct facts.

(b) The body based locally or internationally company or organization wishing to establish a news agency shall apply for the recognition of their businesses to the Ministry with complete and correct facts.

If a person who receives the certificate of recognition is found that it has been applied in a dishonest or deceitful manner the Ministry may revoke or suspend the certificate for a specified period.

The printer or publisher shall not print or publish the publications contained in any of the following matters:

(a) expressing the matters to be affected the ethnic groups or the citizens racially, religiously or culturally;

(b) expressing the matters to be affected national security, rule of law, community peace and tranquility, or equality, freedom, justice and rights of every citizen;

(c) expressing obscene words;

(d) encouraging and inciting crimes, brutality, violence, gambling, and the offence of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

The publication:

(a) in respect of publication which imported or exported the title, kinds and list of quantity shall be dispatched to the Ministry in the specified form by the importer or exporter;

(b) if a publication is made locally, for enabling to carry out the registration and copy right of any publication which printed by the printer shall be dispatched to the Ministry in accord with the stipulations.

The websites distributed by means of internet news coverage according to sections 12 and 13 shall comply with the stipulations of Section 8.

No one shall print, publish or operate the news agency without having the relevant functional recognized certificate.

No one shall print, publish, distribute any publication or operate the news agency within the functional recognized certificate is revoked or suspended for a limited period.

No one shall print, publish, distribute or import a publication that infringed any of the conditions of section 8.

No one shall fail any obligation contained in Section 11.

Whoever violates any prohibition of sections 15 and 16 is convicted by the relevant Court shall be punished with a fine from two million kyats to five million kyats.

Whoever violates any prohibition of Section 17 is convicted by the relevant Court shall be punished with a fine from one million kyats up to three million kyats.

Whoever fails to comply with the provisions of section 18 is convicted by the relevant Court shall be punished with a fine from one hundred thousand kyats to three hundred thousand kyats.

The applying, taking action and prosecuting shall be made within one year from the date of violation of any prohibition of this Law.