Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS ACT 1891 - SECT 3A

3A .         Protection concerning speeches in Parliament

        (1)         A person to whom this section applies does not incur any civil liability as for defamation by the publication, upon the written request of a member of either House of Parliament, of any defamatory matter in a copy in writing of a speech, or extract from a speech, made in Parliament by that member.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1), a copy in writing of a speech, or extract from a speech, made in Parliament by a member of either House of Parliament shall be taken to include any material not attributed to that member but included in the official report of his speech in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).

        (3)         This section applies to — 

            (a)         a person employed as a member of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff;

            (b)         an employee of Parliament;

            (c)         the Government Printer; and

            (d)         a person employed in the Government Printing Office  ³ .

        [Section 3A inserted by No. 46 of 1985 s. 2.]