Queensland Consolidated Acts

COOPERATIVES ACT 1997 - SECT 6

(1) If this Act provides that a person has qualified privilege for an act, matter or thing, the person, in relation to the act, matter or thing--

(a) has qualified privilege in a proceeding for defamation; and

(b) is not, in the absence of malice on the person's part, liable to an action for defamation at the suit of a person.

(2) In subsection (1)--

malice includes ill-will to the person concerned or any other improper motive.

(3) Neither this section nor a provision of this Act that provides as mentioned in subsection (1) limits or affects any right, privilege or immunity a person has, apart from this section or that type of provision, as defendant in a proceeding, or an action, for defamation.