{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-1952/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-1952/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/66",
  "legislation_title": "Defamation Act 1952",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-1952",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Application of Act to Scotland.",
  "text": "This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the following modifications, that is to say:—\n(a) sections one, two, eight and thirteen shall be omitted;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) subsection (2) of section four shall have effect as if at the end thereof there were added the words “Nothing in this subsection shall be held to entitle a defender to lead evidence of any fact specified in the declaration unless notice of his intention so to do has been given in the defences.”; and\n(d) for any reference to libel, or to libel or slander, there shall be substituted a reference to defamation; the expression “plaintiff” means pursuer and; the expression “defendant” means defender; ...",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 14(b) repealed (S.) (8.8.2022) by Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 10), ss. 35(1)(a), 39(2); S.S.I. 2022/154, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 14(d) inserted (S.) (8.8.2022) by Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 10), ss. 35(1)(b)(i), 39(2); S.S.I. 2022/154, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 14(d) repealed (S.) (8.8.2022) by Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 10), ss. 35(1)(b)(ii), 39(2); S.S.I. 2022/154, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/66/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:11.082661+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}