NEWSPAPER LIBEL AND REGISTRATION ACT 1884

This legislation has been repealed.

NEWSPAPER LIBEL AND REGISTRATION ACT 1884

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title
           Preamble

   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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