Part VII Prohibition on Inclusion of Obscene and Other Material in Programme Services
Defamation
166 Defamatory material.
(1)
For the purposes of the law of libel and slander F1... the publication of words in the course of any programme included in a programme service shall be treated as publication in permanent form.
(2)
Subsection (1) above shall apply for the purposes of section 3 of each of the Defamation Acts (slander of title etc.) as it applies for the purposes of the law of libel and slander.
(3)F2
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(4)
In this section “the Defamation Acts” means the M1Defamation Act 1952 and the M2Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 1955.
(5)
Subsections (1) and (2) above do not extend to Scotland.