Introductory text
An Act to amend an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “An Act to amend the Law respecting defamatory Words and Libel.”[31st July 1845]C1C2C3
Annotations
Modifications
- C1
Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
- C2
Preamble (which recites provisions of Libel Act 1843 (c. 96) relating to pleas in actions for libel contained in any public newspaper or other periodical publication) omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)
- C3
This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland