Amendment
of section 4.
Amendment
of action 1.
Amcodment
of section &
Amendment
(Cap. 106).
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the Colony, by means of telecommunication, within the meaning of the Telecommunication Ordinance; and, where words broadcast by means of telecommuni cation are simultaneously transmitted by telegraph, as defined by the Telecommunication Ordinance, in accordance with a licence granted under such Ordin- ance, the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply as if the transmission were broadcast within the definition bereinbefore contained;
"broadcasting station" means any station operated by Government or in respect of which a licence granted by the Governor in Council or, the Postmaster General under the Telecommunication Ordinance is in force, being a licence which (by whatever form of words) authorizes the use of the station for the purpose of providing broadcasting services for general reception: "information" includes indictment;
"International court of justice" means the International Court of Justice and any other judicial or arbitral tribunal deciding matters in dispute between States; "legislature", in relation to any part of the Commonwealth which is subject to a central and a local legislature. means either of those legislatures; "newspaper" means any paper containing public news or observations thereon or consisting wholly or mainly of advertisements which is printed for sale and is published in the Colony either periodically or in parts or numbers at intervals not exceeding thirty six days; "proprietor" includes lessee;
*report of the Legislative Council" includes any report.
paper, vote or other proceeding of the Council; "words" includes pictures, visual images, gestures and other
methods of signifying meaning.”.
Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the word "public".
Section 5 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the words and commas without hard labour.".
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5. Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the words and commas without hard labour.”.
6.
Section 12 of the principat Ordinance is amended by the of section 12. insertion, after the word "printing", of the following-
"or broadcasting".
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7. Section 13 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the Amendment addition, immediately after the word "newspaper". of the following of section 13.
"or broadcast".
8. Section 14 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced Repeal and by the following-
replacement of section 14. **Qualified privilege of newspapers. Def. 13 & 16 Gco. 5 & 1 El 2 G, G
s. 7). Schedule,
14. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the publication in a newspaper or the broadcasting of any such report or other matter as is mentioned in the Schedule shalt be privileged unless the publication is proved to be made with malice,
(2) In an action for libel in respect of the publication of any such report or matter as is mentioned in Part II of the Schedule, the provisions of this section shall not be a defence if it is proved that the defendant has been requested by the plaintiff to publish in the manner in which the original publication was made a reasonable letter or state- ment by way of explanation or contradiction, and has refused or neglected to do so, or has done so in a manner not adequate or not reasonable having regard to all the circumstances,
(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as pro- tecting the publication of any matter the publication of which is prohibited by law, or of any matter which is not of public concern and the publication of which is not for the public benefit.”.
9. Section 17 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced Repeal and by the following-
ceplacement of section 17. "Evidence
of other damages
17. In any action for libel or slander the defendant may give evidence in mitigation of damages that the recovered by plaintiff has recovered damages, or has brought actions for damages, for libel or slander in respect of the publica- tion of words to the same effect as the words on which the action is founded, or has received or agreed to receive compensation in respect of any such publication.".
platani. let. 13 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 3 c. 66,
12).
JD. Section 19 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the Amendment addition, after subsection (2), of the following new subsection-
"[ 15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. * 6. Độ K. 13.
(3) This section shall apply to actions for slander and to actions for slander of title, slander of goods or other malicious falsehood as it applies to actions for libel; and references to the same, or substantially the same libel shall be construed accordingly.".
of section 19.