South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts50—Protection in respect of actions for defamation or breach of
confidence
(1) If access to a
document is given pursuant to a determination under this Act, and if the
person by whom the determination is made honestly believes, when making the
determination, that this Act permits or requires the determination to be
made—
(a) no
action for defamation or breach of confidence lies against the Crown, an
agency or an officer of an agency, by reason of the making of the
determination or the giving of access; and
(b) no
action for defamation or breach of confidence in respect of any publication
involved in, or resulting from, the giving of access lies against the author
of the document or any other person by reason of the author or other person
having supplied the document to an agency or Minister.
(2) Neither the giving
of access to a document pursuant to a determination under this Act nor the
making of such a determination constitutes, for the purposes of the law
relating to defamation or breach of confidence, an authorisation or approval
of the publication of the document or its contents by the person to whom
access is given.