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MATRIMONIAL CAUSES (REPORTS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES (REPORTS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - LONG TITLE

An Act to regulate the publication of reports of certain classes of
judicial proceedings.
[3rd November 1966]
Restriction on publication of reports of judicial proceedings.

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES (REPORTS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 1

1.(1) Any person being the proprietor, editor or publisher of a
newspaper or periodical, or being the person in Northern Ireland
responsible for its general distribution who, in relation to any
judicial proceedings for dissolution of marriage, nullity of marriage,
[or judicial separation, or in relation to any proceedings under
Article 29 of the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978
(proceedings by one spouse against the other for financial provision)
or in relation to any proceedings for the discharge or variation of
an order made in connection with any such cause or matter or for
the temporary suspension of any provision of any such order or the
revival of the operation of any provision so suspended,] publishes
or causes or procures to be published any particulars other than
the following, that is to say:

(a)the names, addresses and occupations of the parties and witnesses;

(b)a concise statement of the charges, defences and counter-charges
in support of which evidence has been given;

(c)submissions on any point of law arising in the course of the
proceedings, and the decision of the court thereon; and

(d)the judgment of the court and any observations made by the court
in giving its judgment,

(2) A prosecution for an offence under this section shall not be
instituted otherwise than by or with the consent of the Attorney
General.

(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to

(a)the printing of any pleading, transcript of evidence or other
document for use in connection with any such judicial proceedings as
are mentioned in subsection (1) or the communication thereof to any
person concerned in the proceedings; or

(b)the publication of any notice or report in pursuance of the
directions of a court; or

(c)the publication of any matter in

(i)any separate volume or part of any series of law reports which
does not form part of any other publication and consists solely of
reports of proceedings in courts of law; or

(ii) any publication of a technical character intended for
circulation among members of the legal or medical profession.

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES (REPORTS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 2
Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Matrimonial Causes (Reports) Act
(Northern Ireland) 1966.