CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 420A Where person charged with unlawful publication of defamatory matter

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 420A

On the trial of a person charged with the unlawful publication of defamatory matter—

        (a)     the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, in like manner as in other cases; and

        (b)     the question whether any matter alleged to be defamatory is or is not capable of a defamatory meaning is a question of law.

S. 421 substituted by No. 9576 s. 6.