New Zealand Legislation: Acts

27 Court may make recommendations as to content, etc, of correction

• (1) In recommending, pursuant to section 26(1), the publication of a correction, a court may include recommendations relating to—

  • (a) the content of the correction:

  • (b) the time of publication of the correction:

  • (c) the prominence to be given to the correction in the particular medium in which it is published.

  (2) In making any recommendation under subsection (1), the court shall have regard—

  • (a) to the context and circumstances in which the matter that is the subject of the proceedings was published, including the manner and extent of publication; and

  • (b) in the case of matter published in a periodical, or in the course of a regular activity or presentation (including a radio or television programme), to the proper interest of the defendant in maintaining the style and character of the periodical, activity, or presentation.