New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Qualified privilege not to apply where publication prohibited

• Nothing in subsection (1) or subsection (2) of section 16 protects the publication of any report or other matter where the publication of that report or matter is prohibited by law, or by a lawful order, in New Zealand or in a territory in which the subject matter of the report or matter arose.

  Compare: 1954 No 46 s 17(3)(a)