Defamatory and Offensive Publications Act, 1966 🇳🇬

Nigeria

Defamatory and Offensive Publications Act, 1966

Published in Official Gazette supplement 62 on 20 June 1966
Assented to on 15 June 1966
Commenced on 1 June 1966
[This is the version of this document from 20 June 1966.]
[Note: The original publication document is not available and this content could not be verified.]

An Act to prohibit and create offence for publishing, display or offer to the public of any pictorial representation of any person living or dead in a manner likely to provoke any section of the community in Nigeria or to do anything in whatever manner likely to provoke or bring into disaffection any section of the community in Nigeria; and to provide the penalty for such offence.

1. Extended definition of publication in relation to defamation

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 Crimina…

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