Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 89

             (1)  Where this Act provides that a person has qualified privilege in respect of an act, matter or thing, the person:

                     (a)  has qualified privilege in proceedings for defamation; or

                     (b)  is not, in the absence of malice on the person's part, liable to an action for defamation at the suit of a person;

as the case requires, in respect of that act, matter or thing.

             (2)  In subsection (1):

"malice" includes ill will to the person concerned or any other improper motive.

             (3)  Neither this section nor a provision of this Act that provides as mentioned in subsection (1) limits or affects any right, privilege or immunity that a person has, apart from this section or such a provision, as defendant in proceedings, or an action, for defamation.