Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 1989 No. 109 of 1989 - SECT 89

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.