Section 13 Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

Section 13 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is about Meaning of “journalistic material”. It provides as follows:

(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, in this Act “journalistic material” means material acquired or created for the purposes of journalism.

(2)Material is only journalistic material for the purposes of this Act if it is in the possession of a person who acquired or created it for the purposes of journalism.

(3)A person who receives material from someone who intends that the recipient shall use it for the purposes of journalism is to be taken to have acquired it for those purposes.

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