Does the base lose defense bonus if it does not have defense facility?

From patch notes for 19.2:

• Offense units now always need to have their associated repair time building present in the base or they will be deactivated
• Defense units that violate their technology requirements and are deactivated should now be displayed as such properly

https://forums.ea.com/en/commandandconquer/discussion/243779/completed-patch-notes-19-2-maintenance-07th-also-completed-hotfix-16th-may

From the second bullet point I understand it was previously introduced, but didn't work as intended. From 19.2 it did work.