Article 2

The following provisions of the Defamation Act 1996 shall come into force on 1st April 1999–

(a)

sections 14 and 15 and Schedule 1 (reports etc of courts and other bodies protected by privilege) and section 17 (interpretation) so far as it applies to those provisions;

(b)

section 16 (repeals) so far as consequential on the provisions in sub-paragraph (a) and Schedule 2 except the entries relating to–

(i)

the Defamation Act 1952^f1 sections 4 and 16(3);

(ii)

the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 1955^f2, sections 4 and 14(2);

(iii)

the Broadcasting Act 1990^f3 Schedule 20, paragraph 3.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1952 c. 66.
f2: 1955 c. 11 (NI).
f3: 1990 c. 42.