Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

NEWSPAPER LIBEL AND REGISTRATION ACT 1884

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Preamble
           Long Title

   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  
            
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