{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-1955/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-1955/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1955/11",
  "legislation_title": "Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 1955",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-1955",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Qualified privilege of newspapers.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7 repealed (4.9.1996 so far as consequential on ss. 1, 5, 6, 12, 13 of the repealing Act, 1.4.1999 so far as consequential on ss. 14, 15, 17, Sch. 1, otherwise 6.1.2010) by Defamation Act 1996 (c. 31), ss. 16, 19(2)(3)(a), Sch. 2 (with s. 20(2)); S.I. 1999/817, art. 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/7",
    "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."
}