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Defamation Amendment Act 1974

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Act Repealed Latest version as at 08 November 1974 (as enacted) | 1974 No 82

Defamation Amendment Act 1974

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Defamation Amendment Act 1974

Public Act
  
1974 No 82
Date of assent
  
8 November 1974
 

Contents

Title
1 Short Title
2 Qualified privilege for certain reports
Administrative information

An Act to amend the Defamation Act 1954

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Defamation Amendment Act 1974, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Defamation Act 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Qualified privilege for certain reports

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in Part II of the First Schedule, after paragraph 10, the following paragraph:

“10a

A fair and accurate report of the proceedings, or of the result of the proceedings, in any inquiry held in accordance with the rules of any association formed for the purpose of promoting and safeguarding the standards of the New Zealand press.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 08 November 1974 (as enacted)

Defamation Amendment Act 1974

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