Section 1: Extended definition of publication in relation to defamation

Sounds where recorded shall, if defamatory, be deemed to be published if reproduced in any place to the hearing of persons other than the person causing it to be reproduced; and in any prosecution, the penal provisions whether of the Criminal Code to the extent of its operation elsewhere than in the Northern States, or as to the said Northern States, of the Penal Code shall, in so far as they relate to or purport to define publication of defamatory matter, be construed and have effect subject to this section.