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CHAPTER 61.

An Act to regulate the publication of reports of judicial proceedings in such manner as to prevent injury to public morals.

E it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.—(1) It shall not be lawful to print or publish, or cause or procure to be printed or published—
 * (a) in relation to any judicial proceedings any indecent matter or indecent medical, surgical or physiological details being matter or details the publication of which would be calculated to injure public morals;
 * (b) in relation to any judicial proceedings for dissolution of marriage, for nullity of marriage, or for judicial separation, or for restitution of conjugal rights, any particulars other than the following, that is to say:—
 * (i) the names, addresses and occupations of the parties and witnesses;
 * (ii) a concise statement of the charges, defences and countercharges in support of which evidence has been given;

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