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Supplement to Official Gazette Extraordinary

THE .DEFAMATORY AND OFFENSIVE PUBLICATIONS DECREE 1966 Decree No. 44 [1st June 1966] THE NATIONAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows : 1. Sounds where recorded shall, if defamatory, be deemed to be published if reproduced in any place to the hearing of persons other than the person causing it to be reproduced ; and in any prosecution, the penal provisions whether of the Criminal Code to the extent of its operation elsewhere than in the Northern Group of Provinces, or as to the said Northern Group, of the Penal Code shall, in so far as they relate to or purport to define publication …