{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-1955/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-1955/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1955/11",
  "legislation_title": "Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 1955",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-1955",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) Any reference in this Act to words shall be construed as including a reference to pictures, visual images, gestures and other methods of signifying meaning.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nSubs. (3) rep. by 1984 c. 46",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 14(2) repealed (4.9.1996 so far as consequential on ss. 1, 5, 6, 12, 13 of the repealing Act, otherwise 6.1.2010) by Defamation Act 1996 (c. 31), ss. 16, 19(2)(3)(a), Sch. 2 (with s. 20(2)); S.I. 2009/2858, art. 3(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1955/11/section/14",
    "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."
}