Commonwealth Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

CORPORATIONS LAW- SECT 89

Qualified privilege

 
 
(1)
Where this Law provides that a person has
qualified privilege in respect of an act, matter or thing, the person: 

 
 
(a)
has qualified privilege in
proceedings for defamation; or

(b)
is not, in the absence of malice on the person's part, liable to
an action for defamation at the suit of a person; 

 
as the case requires, in respect of that act, matter or
thing.
 
 
(2)
In subsection (1): 
 
 
 malice includes ill will to the person concerned or
any other improper motive. 


 
 
(3)
Neither this section nor a provision of this
Law that provides as mentioned in subsection (1) limits or affects any right,
privilege or immunity that a person has, apart from this section or such a
provision, as defendant in proceedings, or an action, for defamation.