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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)

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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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