Section 4 Inquiry by court of summary jurisdiction as to libel being for public benefit or being true.

A court of summary jurisdictionF1in Northern Ireland, upon the hearing of a charge against a proprietor, publisher, or editor, or any person responsible for the publication of a newspaper, for aF2blasphemous libel published therein, may receive evidence F3... as to any matter which under this or any other Act, or otherwise, might be given in evidence by way of defence by the person charged on his trial on indictment, and the court, if of opinion after hearing such evidence that there is a strong or probable presumption that the jury on the trial would acquit the person charged, may dismiss the case.