Victorian Current Acts

DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 51

    (1)     This section applies to the 2024 amendments about courts making orders (the preliminary discovery or non‑party digital intermediary order amendments )—

        (a)     for, or in the nature of, preliminary discovery; or

        (b)     to take steps—

              (i)     to prevent or limit the continued publication or republication of defamatory matter; or

              (ii)     to comply with, or otherwise give effect to, judgments, injunctions or other court orders.

    (2)     Except as provided by subsection (3)(b), the preliminary discovery or non‑party digital intermediary order amendments apply to the making of an order after the commencement of the amendments regardless of whether the proceeding in which they are made—

        (a)     involves a pre‑commencement action or post‑commencement action; or

        (b)     were commenced before, on or after the commencement of the amendments.

    (3)     The existing law continues to apply despite the preliminary discovery or non‑party digital intermediary order amendments—

        (a)     to an order made before the commencement of the amendments; or

        (b)     to the variation or revocation of an order made before the commencement of the amendments.

S. 52 inserted by No. 31/2024 s. 21.