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(1)Section three of the M1Parliamentary Papers Act 1840 (which confers protection in respect of proceedings for printing extracts from or abstracts of parliamentary papers) shall have effect as if the reference to printing included a reference to broadcasting by means of wireless telegraphy.
[F1(2)Section seven of this Act and section three of the M2Law of Libel Amendment Act 1888, as amended by this Act shall apply in relation to reports or matters broadcast by means of wireless telegraphy as part of any programme or service provided by means of a broadcasting station within the United Kingdom, and in relation to any broadcasting by means of wireless telegraphy of any such report or matter, as they apply in relation to reports and matters published in a newspaper and to publication in a newspaper; and subsection (2) of the said section seven shall have effect, in relation to any such broadcasting, as if for the words “in the newspaper in which” there were substituted the words “in the manner in which.”
F1(3)In this section “broadcasting station” means any station in respect of which a licence granted by the Postmaster General under the enactments relating to wireless telegraphy is in force, being a licence which (by whatever form of words) authorises the use of the station for the purpose of providing broadcasting services for general reception. ]
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F1S. 9(2)(3) repealed (4.9.1996 so far as consequential on ss. 1, 5, 6, 12, 13, 16 of the repealing Act and otherwise for E.W. at 28.2.2000) by 1996 c. 31, ss. 16, 19(2), Sch. 2 (with s. 20(2)); S.I. 2000/222, art. 3(b) (with art. 4)
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C1S. 9(2) explained by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 5
C2Reference to Postmaster-General in s. 9(3) to be construed as including reference to Secretary of State: Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), s. 3(1); S.I. 1974/691, arts. 2, 3(3)
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