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s 126J

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Chapter 3Admissibility of evidence
Part 3.10Privileges
Division 1CJournalist privilege

126J Definitions

(1)

In this Division:

informant means a person who gives information to a journalist in the normal course of the journalist’s work in the expectation that the information may be published in a news medium.

journalist means a person who is engaged and active in the publication of news and who may be given information by an informant in the expectation that the information may be published in a news medium.

news medium means any medium for the dissemination to the public or a section of the public of news and observations on news.

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