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LIBEL AND SLANDER ACT
[RSBC 1996] CHAPTER 263

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SECTION EFFECTIVE DATE
8 January 1, 2004

Section 8 BEFORE amended by 2003-52-155 effective January 1, 2004 (BC Reg 465/03, repealed BC Reg 428/03).

8 Sections 5, 6 and 7 do not apply to the case of libel against a candidate, whether at a parliamentary or a municipal election, unless at least 5 days before the election, a full and fair retraction of the statement alleged to be erroneous is made, in the case of

(a) a publication, editorially in a conspicuous manner, or

(b) a broadcast, editorially as widely and as often as the alleged libel was broadcast, and a transcript of the retraction is delivered or sent by registered mail addressed to the candidate.

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