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Punishment for accusation, &c. of dead person with intent to extort.
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35. For the removing of doubts it is hereby declared that the enactments mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act (which relate to divers forms of blackmail) apply to cases where the person is dead—
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(a) who is accused, or whom it is proposed to accuse; or
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(b) upon whom any libel is published, or is threatened to be published; or
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(c) touching whom it is threatened to print or publish, or it is proposed to abstain from printing or publishing, or it is offered to prevent the printing or publishing of, any matter or thing;
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and accordingly the words “(whether living or dead)” shall be inserted after the word “person” in those enactments as indicated in the third column of that schedule.
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