{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-of-libel-amendment-act-1888/section-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/51-52/64",
  "legislation_title": "Law of Libel Amendment Act 1888",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-of-libel-amendment-act-1888",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Order of Judge required for prosecution of newspaper proprietor, &c.",
  "text": "... No criminal prosecution shall be commenced in Northern Ireland against any proprietor, publisher, editor, or any person responsible for the publication of a newspaper for any blasphemous libel published therein without the order of a Judge at Chambers being first had and obtained.\nSuch application shall be made on notice to the person accused, who shall have an opportunity of being heard against such application.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 8 inserted (12.1.2010) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), s. 182(2)(c), Sch. 21 para. 68(a) (with s. 180)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 8 inserted (12.1.2010) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), s. 182(2)(c), Sch. 21 para. 68(b) (with s. 180)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 8 excluded (4.7.1996) by 1996 c. 25, s. 61(5) (with s. 78(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/51-52/64/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:35:32.401186+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."
}