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NEWSPAPER LIBEL AND REGISTRATION ACT 1881 - SECT 4

Inquiry as to libel being for public benefit or being true.

4. A court of summary jurisdiction, upon the hearing of a charge against a
proprietor, publisher, or editor, or any person responsible for the
publication of a newspaper, for a libel published therein, may receive
evidence as to the publication being for the public benefit, and as to the
matters charged in the libel being true, and as to the report being fair and
accurate, and published without malice, and 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.

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