Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00766:reg:146
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00766
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 146
Character Range: 161733–162430

146  No action for defamation in certain cases
  No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, for defamation lies:
 (a) against the Commonwealth or an electoral official conducting, on behalf of the AEC, an election under the Act or these Regulations, in relation to:
 (i) the printing or issuing of material by the electoral official being material prepared by or on behalf of a candidate in the election; or
 (ii) the printing or issuing of a post‑election report given by the AEC under section 197 of the Act; or
 (b) if the report or other material mentioned in paragraph (a) is printed by another person—against that person, in relation to the printing.

Part 8—Records and accounts (Ch 8)