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NEWSPAPERS, PRINTERS, AND READING ROOMS REPEAL ACT 1869

NEWSPAPERS, PRINTERS, AND READING ROOMS REPEAL ACT 1869 - LONG TITLE

An Act to repeal certain enactments relating to Newspapers,
Pamphlets, and other Publications, and to Printers, Typefounders, and
Reading Rooms.
[12th July 1869]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

NEWSPAPERS, PRINTERS, AND READING ROOMS REPEAL ACT 1869 - SECT 1
Acts and parts of Acts in first schedule repealed, except as in
second schedule.

1.... the provisions of the ... Acts which are set out in the
second schedule to this Act shall continue in force in the same
manner as if they were enacted in the body of this Act; ....

NEWSPAPERS, PRINTERS, AND READING ROOMS REPEAL ACT 1869 - SECT 2
Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as The Newspapers, Printers, and Reading
Rooms Repeal Act, 1869.

First Schedule rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

...

Discovery of proprietors, printers, or publishers of newspapers may
be enforced by bill, &c.

If any person shall file any bill in any court for the discovery
of the name of any person concerned as printer, publisher, or
proprietor of any newspaper, or of any matters relative to the
printing or publishing of any newspaper, in order the more
effectually to bring or carry on any suit or action for damages
alleged to have been sustained by reason of any slanderous or
libellous matter contained in any such newspaper respecting such
person, it shall not be lawful for the defendant to plead or demur
to such bill, but such defendant shall be compellable to make the
discovery required; provided always, that such discovery shall not be
made use of as evidence or otherwise in any proceeding against the
defendant, save only in that proceeding for which the discovery is
made.

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