8 Defamation actions
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (1974 c 53) | Legislation

8  Defamation actions

(1)     This section applies to any action for libel or slander begun after the commencement of this Act by a rehabilitated [protected] person and founded upon the publication of any matter imputing that the plaintiff has committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for an offence which was the subject of a spent conviction.

(2)     Nothing in section 4(1) above shall affect an action to which this section applies where the publication complained of took place before the conviction in question became spent, and the following provisions of this section shall not apply in any such case.

(3)     Subject to subsections (5) and (6) below, nothing in section 4(1) above shall prevent the defendant in an action to which this section applies from relying on any defence of justification or fair comment or [under

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