Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) A person (including a personal representative of a deceased person) cannot assert, continue or enforce a cause of action for defamation in relation to—
(a) the publication of defamatory matter about a deceased person (whether published before or after his or her death); or
(b) the publication of defamatory matter by a person who has died since publishing the matter.
(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent a court, if it considers it in the interests of justice to do so, from determining the question of costs for proceedings discontinued because of the subsection.