Western Australian Current Acts

STRATA TITLES ACT 1985 - SECT 111

111 .         Legal professional privilege and defamation

        (1)         Nothing in this Subdivision requires a strata company —

            (a)         to give or certify any information that is the subject of legal professional privilege; or

            (b)         to make available a document or a part of a document if that would disclose information that is the subject of legal professional privilege.

        (2)         It is a defence to an action for defamation if the defendant proves that —

            (a)         the defamatory matter was contained in information or a document mentioned in this Subdivision; and

            (b)         the publication consisted of giving or certifying the information, or making the document available, in accordance with this Subdivision.

        [Section 111 inserted: No. 30 of 2018 s. 83.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 30 of 2018 s. 83.]