{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-1955/schedule/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-1955/schedule/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1955/11",
  "legislation_title": "Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 1955",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-1955",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A fair and accurate report of the proceedings at any public meeting held in the United Kingdom, that is to say, a meeting bona fide and lawfully held for a lawful purpose and for the futherance or discussion of any matter of public concern, whether the admission to the meeting is general or restricted.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. repealed (4.9.1996 so far as consequential on ss. 1, 5, 6, 12, 13 of the repealing Act, 1.4.1999 so far as consequential on ss. 14, 15, 17, Sch. 1, otherwise prosp.) by 1996 c. 31, ss. 16, 19(2)(3)(a), Sch. 2 (with s. 20(2)); S.I. 1999/817, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1955/11/schedule/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:29.080407+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."
}