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LAW AND LIBEL AMENDMENT ACT 1888 - SECT 8

Order of Judge required for prosecution of newspaper proprietor, &c.

8. . . . no criminal prosecution shall be commenced against any proprietor,
publisher, editor, or any person responsible for the publication of a
newspaper for any libel published therein without the order of a Judge at
Chambers being first had and obtained.

Such application shall be made on notice to the person accused, who shall have
an opportunity of being heard against such application.


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