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tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
answer › question first answered	2015-10-23T12:15:40.577Z
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
max date	2019-06-07
answer › answering member printed	Lord Dunlop

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Defamation: Northern Ireland

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To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Defamation Act 2013 can be applied in Northern Ireland through a legislative consent motion by the Northern Ireland Assembly, without any further legislation by Parliament.

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Lord Lexden

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HL2683

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is ministerial correction

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23/10/2015

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<p>A Legislative Consent Motion (LCM) consents to legislation being undertaken by the UK Parliament to extend to a part of the UK where the subject-matter of the legislation is devolved. An LCM cannot of itself extend existing UK Parliament legislation. As the law on defamation is a devolved issue, this is a matter for the Northern Ireland Executive.</p>

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Lord Dunlop

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23/10/2015 12:15:40

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