Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Where access has been given to a document and—
(a) the access was required by this Act to be given or would, but for section 11 (3) or that subsection as modified by regulations under section 11 (4), have been so required to be given; or
(b) the access was authorised by a Minister, or by an officer having authority under section 22 or 59 to make decisions in respect of requests, in the honest belief that the access was required by this Act to be given;
no action for defamation, breach of confidence or infringement of copyright lies against the Territory, an agency, a Minister or an officer because of the authorising or giving of the access, and no action for defamation or breach of confidence in respect of any publication involved in, or resulting from, the giving of the access lies against the author of the document or any other person because of that author or other person having supplied the document to an agency or a Minister.
(2) The giving of access to a document (including an exempt document) in consequence of a request shall not be taken to constitute an authorisation or approval—
(a) for the purposes of the law relating to defamation or breach of confidence—of the publication of the document or its contents by the person to whom access is given; or
(b) for the purposes of the law of copyright—of the doing, by the person to whom access is given, of any act comprised within the copyright in—
(i) any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work; or
(ii) any sound recording, cinematograph film, television broadcast or sound broadcast; or
(iii) a published edition of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work; or
contained in the document.
(3) Expressions used in subsection (2) (b) have the same meaning as in the Copyright Act 1968 (Cwlth).