Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) No action for defamation lies against the Commonwealth, a Minister, the Secretary, the Department or another Agency (within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1999 ), or an officer of the Department or another Agency, because the Secretary or an officer takes any of the following actions:
(a) issues, varies or revokes a transparency notice;
(b) includes a transparency notice, or any variation or revocation of a transparency notice, on the register;
(c) makes available a transparency notice, or any variation or revocation of a transparency notice, on a website;
(d) publishes or otherwise makes available, in any way, a transparency notice, or any variation or revocation of a transparency notice;
(e) supplies or gives access to a draft transparency notice, or a draft of any variation or revocation of a transparency notice, to a Minister or Agency or any other person.
(2) Subsection (1) applies even if, in taking the action, there has been a failure to comply with a requirement of this Act or the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 .
(3) In this section:
"officer" of a Department or Agency includes:
(a) a scheme official; and
(b) an APS employee in the Department or Agency; and
(c) a member of the staff of the Department or Agency; and
(d) a member of the Agency; and
(e) a person engaged to perform services for the Department or Agency.