Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Neither civil nor criminal proceedings may be brought against a member of the Legislative Assembly secretariat for transmitting or broadcasting proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, or a committee of the Assembly, in carrying out the member's duties.
(2) It is a defence to an action for defamation for matter in a broadcast of proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, or a committee of the Assembly, made in the exercise of a right given by this Act that the defamatory matter was broadcast by the defendant without adoption by the defendant of the substance of the matter and the defamatory matter was part of a fair and accurate report of the proceedings.
(3) Subsection (2) does not deprive a person of a defence that the person has apart from this section.
(4) Subsection (2) does not apply to a person for a broadcast made by the person while the person's right to make the broadcast was withdrawn under section 6 (Withdrawal of rights to broadcast).