{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-2013/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-2013/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/26",
  "legislation_title": "Defamation Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-2013",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Short title, extent and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Defamation Act 2013.\n(2) ...This Act extends to England and Wales only.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Subject to subsection (6), the provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Section 15, subsections (4) to (8) of section 16 and this section come into force on the day on which this Act is passed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(2) repealed (S.) (8.8.2022) by Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 10), ss. 35(4)(b)(i), 39(2); S.S.I. 2022/154, regs. 1(2), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 17(3) repealed (S.) (8.8.2022) by Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 10), ss. 35(4)(b)(ii), 39(2); S.S.I. 2022/154, regs. 1(2), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 17(4) substituted (S.) (8.8.2022) by Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 10), ss. 35(4)(b)(iii), 39(2); S.S.I. 2022/154, regs. 1(2), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 17(5) repealed (S.) (8.8.2022) by Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 10), ss. 35(4)(b)(ii), 39(2); S.S.I. 2022/154, regs. 1(2), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/26/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:10.128554+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."
}