Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1881
1 Interpretation.
2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 Inquiry by court of summary jurisdiction as to libel being for public benefit or being true.
5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7 Board of Trade may authorise registration of the names of only a portion of the proprietors of a newspaper.
8 Register of newspaper proprietors to be established.
9 Annual returns to be made.
10 Penalty for omission to make annual returns.
11 Power to party to make return.
12 Penalty for wilful mis-representation in or omission from return.
13 Registrar to enter returns in register.
14 Fees payable for registrar’s services.
15 Certified copy of material on register to be admissible in evidence
16 Recovery of penalties and enforcement of orders.
17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
18 Provisions as to registration of newspaper proprietors not to apply to newspaper belonging to joint stock company.
19 Act not to extend to Scotland.
20 Short title.
THE SCHEDULES to which this Act refers
SCHEDULE A Return made pursuant to the Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1881
. . . . . . . . . ....
SCHEDULE B Return made pursuant to the Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1881
. . . . . . . . . ....

Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1881

1881 c. 60

An Act to amend the Law of Newspaper Libel, and to provide for the Registration of Newspaper Proprietors.

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Functions of Board of Trade now exercisable concurrently by Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2

C2

Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)

C3

This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland

C4

Act modified (E.W.) (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 40, ss. 76, 82(2), Sch. 16 para. 1(2)