Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts Australian Capital Territory Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) No defendant in any proceeding, civil or criminal, shall be able to avail himself of any of the benefits or advantages of this Act unless at the time of the publication of the article complained of if it be a printed article, all of the provisions made by law for regulating the printing and publication of newspapers and papers of a like nature or of the trade of printing generally, applicable to such a work as that in which such article is printed have been complied with.
(2) Any specified non-compliance with any such provision shall be a good answer to any pleading under this Act.
(3) Such defendant shall nevertheless be bound by the other part of this Act.