NEWSPAPER LIBEL AND REGISTRATION ACT 1884
Table of Provisions
- 1 Interpretation
- 2 Newspaper reports of certain meetings privileged
- 7 The Chief Justice or a Judge of the Supreme Court may authorise registration of the name of only a portion of the proprietors of a newspaper
- 8 Register of newspaper proprietors to be established
- 9 Annual returns to be made
- 10 Penalty for omission to make annual returns
- 11 Power to party to make return
- 12 Penalty for wilful misrepresentation in or omission from returns
- 13 Registrar to enter returns in register
- 14 Fees payable for Registrar’s service
- 15 Copies of entries in and extracts from register to be evidence
- 16 Names and addresses of printers and their employers to be printed on newspaper
- 18 Provisions as to registration of newspapers proprietors not to apply to newspaper belonging to a joint stock company
- 20 Short title
- 21 Commencement
