(1) No employee shall, except with the previous sanction of the competent authority, own, wholly or in part, or conduct or participate in the editing or management of any newspaper or other periodical publication.
(2) No employee shall, except with the previous sanction of the competent Authority or any other Authority specified in this behalf, or in the bonafide discharge of his duties, participate in a Radio or Electronic Media broadcast or contribute any article or write any letter either in his own name or anonymously, pseudonymously or in the name of any other person to any newspaper or periodical;
Provided that no such sanction shall be required if such broadcast or such contribution is of a purely literary, artistic or scientific character.