Slander Act 1865 (SA)

ANNO VICESIMO OCTAVO ET VICESIMO NON0

A.D. 1865.

No. 7.

An Act to amend the Lcrw qf 8Znnder.

[Assented to, 4th August, 1865.1

HEREAS the Law does not provide any remedy for the speak- Yrearnble.

W ing and of words imputing a want of chastity to

a woman: And whereas it is desirable that the law should in that respect be amended, and that an action should be sustainable for such words in the same manner and to the same extent as for words charging an indictable offence: And whereas doubts have arisen concerning the true effect of an Act made and passed in the 26th and 27th years of the reign of IIer Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled

An Act to amend the law relating to Defamatory Words," and it is desirable to repeal the same-Be it therefore Enacted, by the Go- vernor-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia,, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. The said Act shall-be and is hereby repealed, except so far as g;;! "No. 1' of

inay be necessary for the purpose of supporting any proceedings

actually commenced thereunder before the passing hereof.

2. Words spoken and published of any woman imputing to her Worde imputing a want o chastity to a

a want of chastity, shall be and shall be deemed to be sl;tnder, and wads be mio~.

an action dial1 be sustainable for such words in the same manner

and to the same extent as for words charging an indictable offence. d.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act,

D. DALY, Governor.

C. Cox, Gov~rnmnt Printer, Viclori~squm.