No. 12 Media Services 2016 person in his profession or trade by an injury to his reputation, is a defamatory matter. (2) The matter referred to under subsection (1) shall qualify to be a defamatory matter even when it is published against a deceased person. (3) The prosecution for the publication of defamatory matter concerning a person who is dead shall not be instituted without the written consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Defamation in print media 36.-(1) A person shall be deemed to make publication of a libel if that person causes the print, writing, painting, effigy or other means by which the defamatory matter is conveyed, to be dealt with, either by exhibition, reading, recitation, description, delivery or otherwise, in a way that the defamatory meaning thereof becomes known or is likely to be known to either the person defamed or any other person. (2) It shall not be necessary for defamation that the defamatory meaning is directly or completely expressed. (3) For the purpose of subsection (2), it shall be sufficient that such meaning and its application to the person alleged to be defamed may be collected either from the alleged libel itself or from any extrinsic circumstances or partly from the one and partly from the other means. Definition of unlawful publication 37. Publication of defamatory matter concerning a person shall be unlawful within the meaning of this Part, unless(a) the matter is true and it was for the public benefit that it is published; or (b) it is privileged as one of the grounds for the reasons provided under this Act. 24