Victorian Current Acts

RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE ACT 2001 - SECT 11

    (1)     A person does not contravene section 7 or 8 if the person establishes that the person's conduct was engaged in reasonably and in good faith—

        (a)     in the performance, exhibition or distribution of an artistic work; or

        (b)     in the course of any statement, publication, discussion or debate made or held, or any other conduct engaged in, for—

              (i)     any genuine academic, artistic, religious or scientific purpose; or

              (ii)     any purpose that is in the public interest; or

        (c)     in making or publishing a fair and accurate report of any event or matter of public interest.

S. 11(2) inserted by No. 25/2006 s. 9.

    (2)     For the purpose of subsection (1)(b)(i), a religious purpose includes, but is not limited to, conveying or teaching a religion or proselytising.