No action for defamation in certain cases
114 No action for defamation in certain cases
No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, for defamation lies:
against the Commonwealth or an electoral official conducting, on behalf of the AEC, a ballot under the Act or these Regulations, in relation to:
the printing or issuing of a document or other material that is required or permitted under regulation 63 or 91 to be contained in the sealed envelope mentioned in that regulation; or
the printing or issuing of a post ballot report given by the AEC under section 68 or 107 of the Act; or
if the report, document or other material mentioned in paragraph (a) is printed by another person—against that person, in relation to the printing.
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