WRONGS ACT 1958 - SECT 4 No action maintainable against a person for faithfully reporting
WRONGS ACT 1958 - SECT 4
No action maintainable against a person for faithfully reporting(1) No action or indictment shall be maintainable against any person for publishing a faithful and accurate report of proceedings in any court of justice, or other legally constituted court or in any inquest or investigation under the Coroners Act 1985 or the Coroners Act 2008 : Provided always that it shall not be lawful to publish any matter of an obscene or blasphemous nature nor any proceedings in any court which are not concluded and which the judge magistrate coroner or other presiding officer may pronounce it improper to publish at their then stage.
S. 4(2) inserted by No. 58/2013 s. 66.
(2) Subsection (1) does not limit or otherwise affect—
(a) the operation of a provision made by or under any other Act that prohibits or restricts the publication or disclosure of information; or
(b) the Supreme Court's inherent jurisdiction to restrict the publication or disclosure of information.
S. 5 repealed by No. 75/2005 s. 49(Sch. 4 item 3.2).
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S.
5A
inserted by No. 25/1989 s. 39, repealed by No. 75/2005
s. 49(Sch. 4 item 3.2).
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Ss 6–8 repealed by No. 75/2005 s. 49(Sch. 4 item 3.2).
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No. 3807 s. 9.
S.
9
amended by No. 9945 s. 3(3)(Sch. 2 item 42).