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PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGES ACT 1987 - SECT 10
Reports of proceedings
- (1)
- It is a defence to an action for defamation that the defamatory matter was
published by the defendant without any adoption by the defendant of the
substance of the matter, and the defamatory matter was contained in a fair and
accurate report of proceedings at a meeting of a House or a committee.
- (2)
- Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of matter published in
contravention of section 13.
- (3)
- This section does not deprive a person
of any defence that would have been available to that person if this section
had not been enacted.
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