<P> The act empowered the government to impose restrictions on the press in the following ways: </P> <P> 1 .) Modelled on the Irish press act, this act provided the government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the Vernacular press . </P> <P> 2 .) From now on the government kept regular track of Vernacular newspapers . </P> <P> 3 .) When a report published in the newspaper was judged as seditious, the newspaper was warned . </P>

Who among the following introduced the vernacular press act