{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2022/30",
  "legislation_title": "Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Consequential amendments and savings etc",
  "text": "(1) Article 9 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 is amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3).\n(2) In paragraph (3) for “of justification or fair comment or” substitute “under section 1 or 2 of the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 which is available to him or any defence”.\n(3) In paragraph (5) for “the defence of justification” substitute “a defence under section 1 of the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 2022”.\n(4) Nothing in section 10 affects any cause of action accrued before the commencement of the section in question.\n(5) Nothing in sections 1 to 5 has effect in relation to an action for defamation if the cause of action accrued before the commencement of the section in question.\n(6) Nothing in section 6 or 7 has effect in relation to an action for defamation begun before the commencement of the section in question.\n(7) In determining for the purposes of subsection (7)(a) of section 2 whether a person would have a defence under section 3 to any action for defamation, the operation of subsection (5) of this section is to be ignored.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 13 in operation at 7.6.2022, see s. 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/30/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:12.019264+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."
}