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PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGES ACT 1987 - SECT 6

Contempts by defamation abolished

  (1)   Words or acts shall not be taken to be an offence against a House by reason only that those words or acts are defamatory or critical of the Parliament, a House, a committee or a member.

  (2)   Subsection   ( 1) does not apply to words spoken or acts done in the presence of a House or a committee.


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